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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024092174 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • mauricedouglas2006@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "maurice"<mauricedouglas2006@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:13:53 -0500 (EST)
Subject: my good friend.












MAURICE DOUGLASSeoul, Korea. Email mauricedouglas2006@myway.com

Dear Sir,

I am sorry I have not been able to communicate with you all these while, I have been very busy investing my share of the inheritance entitlements here in China. I know you must remember me. I contacted you some time ago to assist me in receiving a inheritance amount of US$25.5 million in your account, which you dropped in the process due to financial problems.

Now, a Korean partner assisted in paying off all the charges and the fund was transferred into his account. We have shared the fund according to the agreed percentages and I have invested mine in South Korea.

Because of your involvement in the pursuit of the fund and your utmost assistance and sincerity as at that time, I have left for you the sum of US$5 million with the Bank in USA. You are to contact my Personal Assistant in London,with contact below.

Mr HENRY ALLENTelephone:+447024092174Email:henry-allen@ecite.com

for the legal documentation and processing of the payment voucher which will be presented to the bank in USA for a swift transfer of the US$5 million into your account.Feel free to contact him as the transaction is 100% risk free against financial law.

You are to always inform me on every step taken in the process of the transfer until you receive the fund. Please get in touch with him immediately

Yours Sincerely, MAURICE DOUGLAS.



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