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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "diplomatic unit " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • eurodipunit1@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Head of European Diplomatic Unit <headeurodiplunit@web.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:28:33 +0200
Subject: PLEASE BE WARNED



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EUROPEAN DIPLOMATIC UNITMADRID - SPAIN
OFFICIAL EMAIL: eurodipunit1@aim.com [mailto:eurodipunit1@aim.com]PHONE: + 34-629-922-860


Sir / Madam

PAYMENT OF YOUR INHERITANCE /LOTTO CLAIMS SUM THROUGH DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY PAYMENT SYSTEM:


My name is DR JOHN BOSCO, the head of EUROPEAN DIPLOMATIC UNIT in Madrid - Spain. I have been mandated to contact you because of the security reports we are receiving regarding your claim price with the SPANISH / EUROPEAN UNION.


The EUROPEAN UNION has arrested two {2} men that are impersonating you with the intension of claiming your inheritance / LOTTO PRICE fund with the SPANISH GOVERNMENT with story that you are dead and that they are your next of kin. The two men were brought to our office and they confessed working with some unscrupulous elements who supply them with information of foreign beneficiaries to pull the scam. We are also looking for your agent who has been collecting money (s) in the name of acquiring documents to enable you claim you fund.


In line with this, the EUROPEAN UNION has handed over the payment of her foreign inheritors/ lotto winner to this office. You are advised to contact Mr. JOHN BOSCO for the immediate verification of your data and payment of your inheritance / lotto fund of $6.3 million us dollars. If you are still alive, you are to forward the following informations to us for immediate communication and contact:


1. full name and address
2. phone and fax numbers for communication
3. your driving license or id card for identification
4. your company name and your position
5.complete mailing address

All this information is needed to enable us FILE FOR YOUR CLAIM .

Payment options include:
1. bank to bank wire transfer
2. diplomatic immunity payment system {cash delivery to your residence}

All your payment documents have been given the final ascent. We are waiting for your reply and subsequent claim. We need an immediate response to this email:eurodipunit1@aim.com [mailto:eurodipunit1@aim.com] to prove that you are still alive for subsequent claim of your fund.

Congratulations.

Dr. JOHN BOSCO
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