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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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• 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.
  • fortunesanchez@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3afortunesanchez@yahoo.es

Fraud email example:

From: "fortune sanchez" <fortnsanchez@ig.com.br>
Reply-To: fortunesanchez@yahoo.es
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:52:15 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL


Hello
My name is Fortune Sanchez, I am the regional manager of Banco Santander
Hispano, Spain. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit
both of us. As the regional Manager, It is my duty to send in a financial
report to my head office located here in Spain at the end of each year.
On the course of the last year 2007 end of year report, I discovered that my
branch in which I am the manager made Twenty million seven hundred and fifty
thousand EURO [¤ 20, 750.000.00] which my head office are not aware of and
will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call
SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.
As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money. So
this is why am contacting you for us to work so that you can assist receive
this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will have 45%
of the total fund. Note there are
practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need
from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made
the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to
your designated bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me, I
will appreciate you send me your.
FULL NAME,
CELLPHONE NUMBER
PHONE NUMBER
CONTACT ADDRESS
OCCUPATION AGE
FOTOCOPY OF YOUR PASSPORT
As soon as I receive your response I will details you on how we can achieve
it successfully. Email me back using my private *
email:fortunesanchez@yahoo.es*<http://mail.mailig.ig.com.br/mc/compose?to=email%3Afortunesanchez@yahoo.es>
Best
regards,
Fortune Sanchez

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