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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.
  • +447024056531 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704952884 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Compensations Payment <compensations.26@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:07:56 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?SCAMMED_VI?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?CTIM/=A3350=2C?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?000.00_BEN?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?EFICIARIES?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?.?=



UNTIED KINGDOM COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS DIRECTOR

ATTN:SIR/MADAM,

SCAMMED VICTIM/£350,000.00 BENEFICIARIES.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 08813 £350,000.00 GBP

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated
from the United Kingdom to Bank of England to pay
100 UK 419 scam victims GBP £350,000.00 each; you are
listed and approved for this payment as one of the
scammed victims, get back to this office as soon as possible for
the immediate payments of your GBP £350,000.00
compensations funds.

On this faithfully recommendations want you to know
that during the last UN meetings held at
London, Untied Kingdom, 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 president of the
country is now paying 100 victims of this operators £350,000.00
GBP each, Due to the corrupt and inefficient
banking systems in UK, the payments are to be paid
by HSBC BANK as corresponding paying bank
under foundling assistance by the National Westminster
bank London.

According to the number of applicants at hand,78
beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are
from the United States, we still have more 22 left to
be paid the compensations of GBP £350,000.00 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
him for any reason what so ever, the US secret service
is already on trace of the criminal.

For more vital information, please visit:
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm
Below is contact informations of person incharge of your
payment shcadule.

Name: Mr. Gary Cowen
Email:gary.cowen@live.com
Tel: +44 7024056531
Fax: +44 8704952884

You can receive your compensations payments via any of
the both options you choose, DRAFT PAYMENTS or WIRE
TRANSFERS or ATM CARD for more info contact your payment
compensations payment manager.

Yours faithfully,

Prof. Helen Joseph.
Prime minister

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