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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:

• 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.
  • +447031918562 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: MR.FRANCIS NOLAN <unitednationsdelegates011@msn.com>
Reply-To: <info@unitednationoffice.tk>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:19:29 +0000
Subject: THIS IS NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT FROM UNITED NATION OFFICE



FROM:MR.FRANCIS NOLAN.

NATWEST BANK/UNITED NATIONS 2008

Tell:+447031918562

COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS

Attn: Beneficiary

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: TRASNFER#06654

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to natwest bank United Kingdom to pay 100 british 419 scam victims $5 Million each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims,get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $5 Million compensations funds.

On this faithfull recomendations,I want you to know that during the last UN meetings held at AMERICAN,it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today,in other to retain the good image of the country,the prime minister of the country (PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN) is now paying 100 victims of this operators $5 Million USD each, the payments are to be paid by Natwest bank London,United Kingdom,corressponding paying bank under funding assistance by the Barclays Bank Of England.

According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more 16 left to be paid the compensations of $5 Million each.Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in London as one of their victims of the operations,you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to any body for any reason what so ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminals.

For more vital information,please visit:

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7615993.stm

You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options you choose, DRAFT PAYMENTS, WIRE TRANSFERS or by a diplomatic home cash delivery,I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Yours faithfully,
MR.FRANCIS NOLAN.

Reply through this e-mail address:info@unitednationoffice.tk

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