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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • tonyclarke001@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tony Clarke"<tonyclarke001@live.com>
Reply-To: <tonyclarke001@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:40:07 -0700
Subject:

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The attached message from Tony Clarke <tonyclarke001@live.com> (<tonyclarke001@live.com>)
was determined by the Spam Blocker to be spam based on a score
of 21.799997 where anything above 3.5 is spam.

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Content-Type:message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit
Content-Disposition:inline

Reply-To: <tonyclarke001@gmail.com>
From: "Tony Clarke"<tonyclarke001@live.com>
Subject: This is confidential please
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:40:07 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
X-Spam-Flag:YES

Hello friend,

Kindly find a place in your heart to forgive me for verging into your privacy without your prior knowledge. This was due to my dire and urgent need to discuss with someone.

I urgently want to invest the sum of Fifteen Million United States Dollars only (US$15 million) in your country, and as such, I need a honest and trusted partner.

If you are interested and capable of handling such an amount, kindly forward your details thus to me immediately;

Your full names and address
Your direct telephone number
A trusted bank account into which the fund will be LEGALLY transferred into.

Am waiting.

Regards,

Tony Clarke
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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam