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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:
  • "necessary legal documents" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447045735979 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • anto111_george@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: moli <molhh12@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: moli_atmd@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:15:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Miller Audrey & Associate


Miller Audrey & Associate
London EC2N 1DW, United Kingdom.
Co. Attorney:George Neil
tel:+447045735979
Confidential Email: anto111_george@yahoo.co.uk

Good Day My Friend,

It is with a Heavy Heart that I am reaching you regarding the death of my late client. I am Barrister GEORGE B. NEIL, the legal adviser to late MR. MIKE & CAROL HALL, a very Wealthy Couple that lived here in the United Kingdom, before their recent Death on the 26th of December during the Tsunami disaster 2004. Below is the webpage of the deceased.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4153821.stm
My client made clear to me before his death that He deposited a box with a security company that contains a fat the sum of US$10,000,000.00,which the security company is ignorant of the original content of the box. They did not want the management of the Security Company to know the content of the consignments; therefore they registered the content of the consignments as Gold Bars. Now, the security company believes that what they deposited with them were Gold Bars.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives, now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased. I will furnish you with the whole procedures to ensure that a successful conclusion is achieved, for your assistance, I have agreed to give you thirty five percent (35%) of the total sum at end of the transaction and the name of the DIPLOMAT with the EUROPA TRUST will be given to you for your confirmation on acceptance of this deal.
I will have to put the necessary legal documents that can be used to backup the claim. All I required from you is your honest cooperation to enable this deal go through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of law. Surely, you must have some questions to ask or may be you just need further clarification. I will be happy to receive your comment, this will enable me proceed with all regulation.

I will also need your most confidential telephone number/ mobile that I can reach you anytime.
You can write to my Confidential Email account: anto111_george@yahoo.co.uk
Please try and get back to me
yours truly,
GEORGE B. NEIL (Esq.)




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