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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:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447045789149 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Merna Fenn" <merna98@msn.com>
Reply-To: dosar20233@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:52:43 +0000
Subject: LET US DO BUSINESS? CALL ME



My Dear Partner,

I am contacting you as a matter of urgency in transfering a huge amount of
£15,000,000.00(Fifteen Million Great British Pound Sterlings) I am only
contacting you to seek for your indulgence and assistance. My name is Mr.
Merna Fenn ,I am the Executive Auditor in my bank and as well the Personal
account manager of Late Mr. John Hughes, the director and owner of Accordis
Oil Chemical Company from Australia, who died in a plane crash without any
registerd beneficiary. He deposited this money many years ago in my bank and
since his death know body has oprated on this account neither any body knew
about the account.


I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but i don't
know any foreigner,i am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money can not be approved to any local bank here in Scotland,but can only be
approved to any foreign account because the money is pounds sterlings and
the former owner of the account is John Hughes and he was a foreigner too.I
am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a foreign
account as the real beneficiary. What i needed from you is to provide me
with an empty bank account of yours where the fund will be transfered.

At the conclusion of this business,you will be given 35% of the total amount
of the money for your indulgence and assistance,while 65% will be for me.
And i want you to understand that this transaction is highly legal and hitch
free since i will procure all the legal documents from the Court to back
this fund.I need a strong assurance from you that you will not let me down
in this business once the money is transferred into your account.



And i can only work with you if you can keep this transaction secret and
confidential on your side.Hope to meet you in your Country as soon as the
fund is transfered into your account for the withdrawing and sharing of the
fund and other investment,cause i would like to invest my own share in your
Country and would like joint investment. What kind of investment is more
profitable in your Country? Call me through my mobile tel +44 70457 89149.


Yours truly,


Mr. Merna Fenn .
Mobile Tel: +44 70457 89149

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