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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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• 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.
  • daniel_w2008@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: "david_larry2007@terra.es" <david_larry2007@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:27:12 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Your compensation



Dearest friend,

This is to inform you about my success in getting the money moved under the co-operation of a new patner from South Korea.
Presently,i'm in South Korea for the purpose of investing my own share of the money.Meanwhile,i did'nt forget your past efforts and attempts in assisting me to move the cash even though we were not successful.
Now contact my secreatary,his name is Mr Daniel West and his e-mail address is
(daniel_w2008@yahoo.fr)

Ask him to send you a Certified Draft to the tune of $850,000.00 which i kept for you as compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.I appreciated your efforts at that time so much.
So feel free and contact my secreatary, Mr DANIEL WEST and give him instructions on where to send the money to you.

Please let me know immediately you recieve it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at that time. At the moment,i am very busy here investing with my new patner.Finally,i have forwarded instructions to my secreatary to send the Comfirmable Bank Draft to you.So feel free and get in touch with him and he will send the Bank Draft to you without delay.

Best regards.
Dr David Larry






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