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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.
• 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.
  • richard_wood11@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "info008" <info008@mail-online.dk>
Reply-To: richard_wood11@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:29:38 +0100
Subject: Hello...

I am Dr.Richard Wood, Director of Project ,United Kingdom Department of
Minerals and Energy. I am making this contact with you based on the
committee's need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with
a solution to a money transfer.This amount $28.5m represents the balance of
the total contract value executed on behalf of Department by a foreign
contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately, of
which the actual sum has been paid.

Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of the sum
will be 25% of the $28.5million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and
Miscellaneous expenses.

To enable us commence, I will need your personal telephone/fax number
Please reply to richard_wood11@yahoo.fr

I await your immediate response.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Richard Wood




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