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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "atm payment department" (this phrase is often used in the ATM card payment scam)
  • "activation fee" (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. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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.
  • info_intercotal_1@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ugo john <ugojohn381@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <info_intercotal_1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:14:16 +0100
Subject: CONTACT ATM DEPARTMENT



Dear Friend,This is to inform you about my success in transferring your money into an ATM Master Card to curtail the risk of carrying huge amount of money arround.We are the people that coded this amount of money in the card and we are going to tell you how to make use of it. Presently I’m out of the country for investing my own part of the total money. Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist mein moving the cash despite that both of us could not make it. Now contact ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and their email address is (info_intercotal_1@yahoo.fr) ask them to send you the sum of One Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ( $1.200.000.00) only in an ATM MASTER CARD which I kept for you as compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much, so feel free and get in touch with the ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and instruct them on where to send your Card to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the struggle at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here investing with my new partner. Remember that you are going to pay a reactivation fee of $115.00 only and it is for the reactivation of your card against it's expiry before the delivery is made. The reason for the reactivation fee is that the account has been there for a long time while the government was doing serious investigations on the right owner of the money before this conclusion was made. Finally, I have forwarded instructions to the DEPARTMENT to send the confirmable ATM MASTER CARD to you, so feel free to get in touch with the DEPARTMENT and they will send the CARD to you without any delay. Please note that delay is dangerous as early action is imperative. Best Regards,Barr.Ugo John.
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