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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:

• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
• 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.
  • mulianga2002@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "SCARLET COURIER LIMITED" <scarletcourier_world@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:04:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: VERY URGENT


Dear winner(Betty Alosa ), We received your mail and the content was well noted. Regarding the transfering of your winning prize to you, For you to be on a safer side from lossing your winning prize, you have to make sure you send to our office the western union money payment slip to us. Regarding this, you just have 24hours to do this or you forfoit your winning prize, because you said you have made the payment, you have to send the slip. We await your responds soon. Regard,Management --- On Mon 01/29, &lt; mulianga2002@yahoo.com &gt; wrote:From: betty alosa [mailto: mulianga2002@yahoo.com]To: scarletcourier_world@excite.comDate: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:50:13 -0800 (PST)Subject: Re: A SCANNED COPY OF YOUR DISCLAIM FORM
Dear Sir, I send you the 300 pounds you asked for by Western Union and gave you the information. Now you are twisting around pretending to have not pocketed my money already. I repeat to you once again that I dont have a scanner. Let it be known to you that my brother is a commissioner of oaths too, and he is ready to announce in KBC and BBC London on Wednesday night about this scandal, inorder to sensitize the public you are conning. Watch it live on wednesday night at 22hrs and you will see me tell the world the whole story in a television interview. I give you 12hrs to reply to this mail or I give him a go a head. Regards! Winner. SCARLET COURIER LIMITED wrote:




Dear winner,We are using this medium in informing you to send the scanned copy of the western union pay slip that was given to you as you made the payment, so that we can clear it here, because you have limited time to claim your 1.5 million Gb pounds that you have won. Here is an attached dislaim document for you. This document signify that if you do not make the payment with in 48hours, you will forfit your winning prze and it will be forwarded back to the lottery board. If you do not want want your winning prize you should fill and return the document to our office so that we can announce it in BBC AND CNN that one of the lottery winner do not want to claim its lottery prize so that the world can be aware of this. Well if you have a change of mind, endevour to go and make the payment of the 300 Gb pounds and send the payment slip to our office if you have not make the payment. Hope to hear from you soon.Regard,Scarlet courier ltd


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