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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • paulpatterson3@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Paul Patterson" <paulpatterson0@myway.com>
Reply-To: paulpatterson3@yahoo.es
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:15:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: E-MAIL FROM PAUL PATTERSON IN LONDON.


Greetings, My name is Mr. Paul Patterson, Regional Head of British Isles (Royal Bank of Canada Investment Management (UK)Limited). I am writing in respect of a German British Citizencustomer of my bank Mr. Andreas Schranner who diedtogether with his wife and children in a Plane crashon Monday 31st July 2000 GMT 14:22 UK while they wereflying to New York on vacation.Please seetp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stmformore information. The late Mr. Andreas Schranner left in our bank thesum of twenty five million five hundred thousandpounds (Â £25.5 million pounds) and nobody will evercome for this money because he died with his entirefamily. I am the only person that is aware of thismoney since Mr. Andreas Schranner did not give to mybank any next of kin to inherit his money. Now, I want to use my position in the bank to transferthis money to your country for investment. If you canprovide me with an account where I can transfer this(twenty five million five hundred
thousand pounds) £25.5 million pounds. I will give you 40% of thisEntire fund while the remaining 50% shall be for me,extra 10% will be for transfer charges. I am hoping to get a favorable response from you to this e-mail address (paulpatterson3@yahoo.es) MR. PAUL PATTERSON

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