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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:
  • "million british pounds" (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)
  • ",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)
  • "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +447035928901 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Wilie Cicci" <assistmea6@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mr.willie4@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:34:05 +0000
Subject: Very Important (From Mr. Willie Cicci)



From Mr. Willie Cicci.Anglo Irish Bank,Dover House Whitehall, London. SW1A 2AUTel (+4470359 28901)
Attn,

I am an investment consultant working with Bank Of Anglo Irish Bank, at their offshore department Dover House Whitehall, London. I will be much happy to work this deal out with you if we can do business. Be so kind to contact me at your earliest convenient for a possible business deal involving money transfer.

During one of our periodic auditing I discovered a dormant account with holding balance of £25,000,000 (Twenty-Five Million British Pounds). This account has not been operated for the past years, from my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a foreigner, and he died without a WILL. As at this moment, I am constrained to issue more details about this business until your response is received, also I will brief you more with a little bit of my biography as we progress with the business, as we have not know our selves or meet before. If you are not familiar with my Bank profile, please take a moment of your very busy schedules to read about my Bank <http://www.angloirishbank.co.uk > and send me your nominate account information as states below where you like the bank to transfer the money to, so that I will write and apply an application for the release of the fund immediately into your account.

Beneficiary Name.......Bank Name..............Bank Address...........Account Number.........Swift Code.............Routing Number.........State & Country........You're Tel/Fax Number....For easy communication.

This is extremely urgent. Awaiting your positive feed back as soon as possible.

Warmest regards,

Mr. Willie Cicci.Chief investment Consultant,Anglo Irish Bank,Dover House Whitehall, London. SW1A 2AUhttp://www.angloirishbank.co.uk Call Me +4470359 28901

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