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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • richie.3333@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Richard Nelson" <rich.nel01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rich_nels@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:42:47 +0100
Subject: from Mr Nelson

Dear Sir/Madam,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal
ethics. I will introduce myself as Nelson, a staff in the accounts
management section of a well-known bank here in South
Africa. One of our accounts with holding balance of $15,000,000 (Fifteen
Million dollars) has been dormant and has not been operated for the past 4
years.

From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account a
foreigner by name Austin Martins died in August 2000 and since then nobody
has done anything as regards the claiming of
this money because he has no family members who are aware of the existence
of neither the account nor the funds. Also Information from the National
Immigration states that he was also single on entry into the SA.

I have secretly discussed this matter with some of the bank officials and we
have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. We thus propose
to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from
the deceased and funds released to you after due processes have been
followed.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is a
legitimate and does not originate
from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act.

If interested let me hear from you.

Regards,

Nelson.



ALTERNATIVELY, YOU CAN REACH ME ON richie.3333@yahoo.com

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