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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "UNITED STATES LOTTERY (AGENT: BR BRUCE JOSEPH RODNEY" <br.rodney@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:45:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: YOUR EMAIL REQUIRES URGENT AUTHENTICATION


Dear lucky winner,

I received your sink link approval by the law and spam recording and I wish to keep inform that your winning is 100% truth and this is the reason why I spend my time working towards that and because of creating a good relationship with you I vow to help you in paying this fee to the bank so that they will release the fund to be transfer into your bank account.

I don’t like this delay and the more you expose your winning to people the more you get confuse towards your winning claim and remember I told you that if we received any mail telling about this same ref and your winning number that it will read to disqualification.

I m still waiting to hear from you ASAP,



Regards
Barrister Bruce Joseph Rodney.






Albertina Hirschder <albertinahirschder97@germanmail.info> wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,

We apologise for intercepting your email and sending you this automated reply.

Due to the huge amount of spam and marketing emails, we have recently introduced an email spam/filter control system at germanmail. This is to ensure that only authorised users can email and contact our clients.

Only approved incoming email addresses will now be permitted to contact our client email accounts. If you would like to be added to our list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once we have approved your email details, we will forward your original message to the intended inbox. You do not need to re-send your message. We apologise for this one-time inconvenience.

Please use the following link to permanently approve your email contact details:

http://spam.izone.me.uk/sp.pl?i=20050802164745&e=br.rodney@yahoo.co.uk

Thank you for your understanding.

www.germanmail.info
Mail Website for Germany!

Das deutschsprachige Afrikaportal für Kunst, Kultur und Business. http://www.afroport.de/



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