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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.
  • mrroy_sin12@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR ROY SINGER" <mrroy_sin1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrroy_sin12@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:10:27 -0800
Subject: Compliments to you,

Compliments to you,

I decided to contact you for a business transaction
hoping that you will contact me at your earliest
convenient for a possible business deal involving
money transfer of GBP £10 ,000,000(Ten Million +
British Pounds)

I am presently the Auditor General of a Bank, located
at the Heart of London.With your sincere assistant and
co-operation,I have determined to work this deal out
if we can do business.As at this moment,I am
constrained to issue more details about this business
until your response is received.

If you are not familiar with the above
information,please take a moment of your very busy
schedules to read about it and send your response.This
deal is worth taking and highly profitable.

Your utmost response is highly awaited through my
private email address: <mrroy_sin12@yahoo.fr>

Thank you for your time and attention.
Warmest regards,
.........................
MR ROY SINGER.

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