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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.
• 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.
  • roy.claims4@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: link <link@neunet.com.ar>
Reply-To: atm.claims@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:16:40 -0300
Subject: You Who......


OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC

CONGRATULATION,
The ATM CARD payment center,OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC has been mandated to issue out an ATM CARD value of {700,000,00 Thousand USD},to you, which you can use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world.

You are advised to keep this information confidentially away from the public to avoid fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT) pending of the delivery of your ATM CARD to you.

Note that because of impostors,we hareby issued you our CODE OF CONDUCT,which is (ATM-900) so you have to indecate this when contact us by using it as your subject.complete the form below and send it to us for the processing of your document and transfer of your ATM CARD to you.

Contact: Mr Roy Morgan
EMAIL:roy.claims4@hotmail.com

(SEE BELOW)
CODE OF CONDUCT.............
NAME IN FULL...............
DATE OF BIRTH...............
AGE........................
SEX.........................
MARITIAL STATUS.............
HOME ADDRESS...............
NATIONALITY.................
COUNTRY......................
OCCUPATION...........
POSITION...............
OFFICE ADDRESS..............
TEL.........................
MOBILE......................
DECLARATION....I.................

Do hereby declare that the information given above, is correct to the best of my knowledge and believe thesame to be true.

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