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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found 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.
  • francis_john055@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "john dukes" <johndukes28@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: francis_dukes@myway.com
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:36:55 +0100
Subject: GREETINGS TO YOU

FROM:GROUP AUDIT FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DIVISION

ALPHA BANK LONDON
66 Cannon Street, London EC4N.

Dear,

RE:TRANSFER OF £26,000,000.00 MILLION POUNDS TO YOUR
ACCOUNT.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important
business.Though, this medium (Internet) has been
greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it
because it still remains the fastest medium of
communication. However, this correspondence is
unofficial and private, and it should be treated as
such.

At first I will like to assure you that this
transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both
parties.

In order to transfer out(TWENTY SIX MILLION POUNDS
STERLINGS)£26,000 000.00 From our bank here in
London.the fund for transfer is of clean origin.the
owner of this account is a foreigner, a program leader
who was believed to acquire the fund through his
secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQI
Government.The deceased died with all the members of
his family in an auto-accident in JUNE 23, 1999
without a WILL.The amount involved is [£26,000,000.00
POUNDS STERLINGS].

I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign
account abroad but i don't know any foreigner whom i
can trust,i know that this message will come to you as
a surprise as we don't know ourselves before,but be
sure that it is real and a genuine business.i contact
you believing that you will not let me down once the
fund goes into your account.reply through my private email
francis_john055@yahoo.co.in

Let me hear from you Urgently.

Regards,

DR JOHN DUKES FRANCIS

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