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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
• 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.
  • jerry_coldswaet01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: billmat@freehome-blizz.ru.com
Reply-To: jerry_coldswaet01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 02:44:01 +0000
Subject: YOUR MESSAGE FROM MR.JERRY COLDSWAET




STANDARD BANK PLC,
5TH FLOOR,CANNON BRIDGE HOUSE,
25 DOWGATE HILL,LONDON,
EC4R 2SB,
UNITED KINGDOM.


My dear Partner,

I am Mr.Jerry Coldswaet, External Auditor of Standard Bank of United Kingdom. I am contacting you for a possible business transfer worth GBP 21,500,000 (Twenty-One Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) Pounds Sterling.

It will be in my interest to finish this transaction with you hoping that you will not cheat or blackmail me at the conclusion of this goal because I have planned it for long. At the moment, I am constrained to issue more details about this business until your positive response is received.

If you can be a collaborator to this transaction, please indicate your positive interest immediately for us to proceed by sending your response. I assure you that this deal is worth taking and highly profitable.I will give you more details about the transaction after your positive responds. Please send all your reply through this my private email address to............ jerry_coldswaet01@yahoo.co.uk


Thank you for your time and attention.
Warmest regards,
Mr.Jerry Coldswaet
External Auditor,
Standard Bank PLC.

Anti-fraud resources:

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