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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "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.
  • mraslin1111@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ROGER ASLIN" <mraslin1111@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mraslin1111@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:58:46 +0000
Subject: British International Monetary Clearance Services England.

From: Roger Aslin.

Bills & Exchange Manager

mraslin1111@yahoo.co.uk

British International Monetary Clearance Services England.

Sir;

PRIVATE AND URGENT.

I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer  of a huge sum of money from a deceased account .Though  I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone  apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction bearing in mind that this money has been on a stand still for quite sometime.

PROPOSITION; We discovered an abandoned sum of (Twenty Million United states  Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who  died along  with his entire family in 2001.

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations  has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir. We cannot release  the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin  to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Upon this discovery,we now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased  as all  documentations will be carefully worked out by us for  the funds (Twenty Million United states Dollars) to be  released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.

It may interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an order  of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt  of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing  me with the following;

1. Your Full Names and Address.

2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the appropriate  departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can  be made. We shall be compensating you with 3 Million Dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us.

Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for us for investment purposes in your country.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the  trust we have bestowed in you,

I await your urgent  email.

Regards,

Roger Aslin.

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