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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:
  • "cheques " (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• 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_office_agent122@yahoo.fr

Fraud email example:

From: barristerjohnwill1@freenet.de
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:19:03 +0100
Subject: Value Attention


Value Attention
I resumed duty recently as policy harmonization
chairman on public debt a committee set up by West African Monitoring
Institution (WAMI) under the able presidency . My office monitors and
controls the affairs of all banks and financial institutions here in
Africa that is to tell you that I am committed to upholding and
defending the constitution and laws of West African Monitoring
Institution as well as achieving a higher level of public safety and
security through the prosecution of criminals in the state.
The purpose
of the committee among other is to investigate, verify and settle all
outstanding total pending payment owned and Records before me have
revealed that your payment has not been effected as a result of official
negligence as your fund has been identified either as ghost file,
unclaimed deposits, and over-invoiced sum etc; this is due to many
abnormalities had happened in the institutions where some top official
of the apex Banks are interested in your payment and they collaborate
with impostors who are carrying a fake portfolios with levies misled and
misguided about the position of your fund and having the opportunity to
extort money from you that made it too longer up till date that explains
why you receive different kinds of untrue emails and phone call from
different people everyday.
so, be inform that we have concluded all the
necessary arrangement towards the release of your payment but due to the
prevailing situation worldwide on cash movement and transfer of hug sum
of money, your payment has since being deposited with our (OFF-SHORE
PAYMENT CENTRE) AFFILIATED TO WORLD ASSOCIATIONS OF DEBT MANAGEMENT
OFFICES BANK OF AMERICA .Base on the information we received from our
paying office today, as the truthfully beneficiary of this payment.
you
are responsible to pay $145 for your NON IMMIGRANT TRANSIT TAX as the
authorities demand which we described as selective payment to enable the
programming of the information in the micro chip compartment which will
comply with bank of America to effect the transfer of your fund exactly
on the particular date or period (24 hours) specified in the transfer
script text for the fund to be made available to you any way you wish to
receive it.
Please reconfirm your name, address and telephone to this
EMAIL. info_office_agent122@yahoo.fr
so that we can advice you on
how to send the money across to enable us finalise this transfer this
week.Your payment shall be made as soon as this information needed from
you is submitted through our paying office by wire transfer or by a
certify bank bond America Express Cheques all the transfer charges will
be deducted from your total sum as long as you send the $145 for the
programming of the information .the consequences of not adhering to this
warning would be yours.Considering the circumstances at hand, you are
advice not to accept any E-mail telephone calls that does not come from
this office in regards to your payment this is to forestall new
efforttowards a diversion of your payment.

Accept our congratulations
in advance.

Best regards,
Gen .Joseph Kone Guei






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