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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:
  • "million 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)
• 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.
  • uk_oilgascomp@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mailer4@mchsi.com (UNITED KINGDOM OIL AND GAS COMPANY)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:52:15 +0000
Subject: RE: REQUEST FOR FOREIGN ACCOUNT

nited Kingdom Oil and Gas Company,
London UK.
Email:uk_oilgascomp@sify.com

ATTN:
RE: REQUEST FOR FOREIGN ACCOUNT.

My name is Dr David Coleman, the Director of field services with the United
Kingdom Oil and Gas Company here in the UK. I believe you will be very
surprised to receive this letter. Anyway, I got your contact from a friend of
mine working in the UK chamber of commerce. In 2006, the government of the
United Kingdom budgeted the sum of USD$1.2 Billion Dollars for the
installation of a new power turbine and services of Monax Axials in the
country’s oil refineries.

We are expected to give a full account of our expenditure by the end of the
2006 fiscal year. After all our expenditure, we still have an excess of over
SD$100 Million Dollars in our coffers I and my colleagues have decided to make
some money for ourselves before we retire from public service.We are looking
for a foreign partner urgently who can raise an invoice for the supply of one
Power Turbine valued at 25 Million Dollars only and we shall obtain an
approval and process the payment into your nominated account.

We are also willing to share the money in the ratio 70:30, that is 70% for us
and 30 % for you. This is strictly a deal and you must keep it very
confidential. Please if interested, kindly get back to us with the following
information.

Name....
Age......
Occupation....
Telephone Num....
Country of Residence....
Marital Status...

Best Regards,
Dr David Coleman.

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