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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +447988032702

Fraud email example:

From: david coleman <davidcoleman35@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <david_03coleman@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:13:52 -0700
Subject: REPLY SOONER



>From MR DAVID COLEMANHead of departmentLIoyds TSBUnited Kingdom.For your kind attention,Request for Your urgent assistance/investment /joint venture. Complement of the seasons. This message could be strange but real if you pay some attention to it,Icould have notified you about it at least for the sakeof your integrity. Please accept my sincere apologies.In bring this message of goodwill to you.In orderto transfer out £15,000,000.00.(fifteen millionspounds sterling) from our bank here I have the courageto look for a reliable and honest person who will becapable for this important transaction, believing thatyou will never let me down either now or in future. I am MR David Coleman, the auditor and head of computingdepartment LIoyds TSB Bank,United Kingdom. There is an accountopened in this bank in 1995 and since my inception into office in 2001, nobody hasoperated on this account again,after going throughsome old files, I discovered that if i do not remitthis money out urgently, it will be forfeited fornothing.I am contacting you because of the need toinvolve a foreigner with a foreign account as the realbeneficiary. i need your co-operation to make thiswork fine, because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has the correct information to this account, which i will Give to youwhen sure of your capability to handle such amount instrict confidence and trust according to myinstructions and my advice for our mutual benefitbecause I don't want to make any mistake, I need yourstrong assurance and trust.If you are interested,please reply immediately thru thisemail:david_01coleman@yahoo.cominclude your Telephone and Fax number for bettercommunication. RegardsMR David ColemanTELL....+447988032702
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