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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • donald.darlington@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?utf-8?q?Darlington=20Wuppert?= <darlingtonwuppert@yahoo.com.co>
Reply-To: donald.darlington@yahoo.de
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:20:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:darlingtonwuppert@yahoo.com.co



- Dear Sir My name is Barrister Donald Darlington an Attorney at Law. I am writing to notify you of the unclaimed inheritance deposit of our late client,Mr.Morris Thompson who passed on to the Great beyond in the Madrid Bomb Blast, March 11,2004.I got your name and email address through a web search engine in my quest to get a reliable individual who shall work with me in claiming this inheritance deposit since all efforts to get the biological relative has proved abortive.Please revert back to me urgently with your telephone and fax numbers for more information on the amount of inheritance, procedure and legality of this claim via this email address: Regards,Barrister Donald Darlington donald.darlington@yahoo.de Attorney At Law

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