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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • nklelectronic@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • nklelectronic@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "nklelectronic@sify.com" <nklelectronic@sify.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 05:54:45 -0700
Subject: MANAGER OF BILL AND EXCHANGE

FROM THE DESK OF MR. CLIVE BUTHELEZI
MANAGER OF BILL AND EXCHANGE
STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: +27(0)86 609 6553
nklelectronic@aim.com
nklelectronic@sify.com
7TH MAY 2007.

Dear

I am Mr. Clive Buthelezi manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department where I work. Standard Bank of South Africa, I have
urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. A British Oil
consultant and contractor with the Kruger Gold Company, Mr. Raymond Beck
made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at
US$12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million United State Dollars) in my branch. Upon
maturity,

I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, the Kruger Gold Company that Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beck
died in a plan crash along with his wife in Egypt Air Flight 990, 1999 air
crash (for more information about this crash and person you can contact this
website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

Since we got this information about his death and on further investigation,
I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace
his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and
discovered that Mr. Raymond Beck did not declare any kin or relations in all
his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

This sum of US$12,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest
is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one
will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of South African money
regulations, at the expiration of 8 (Eight) years, the money will revert to
the ownership of the S.A Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand
in as the next of kin to Mr. Raymond Beck so that the fruits of this aged
man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government
officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full
names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents
and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin.

We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and authorization
of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of
probate/administration in your favor for the transfer. A bank account in any
part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of
this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin.

The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of
70% for me and 30% for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for
this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as the BILL
AND EXCHANGE Manager guarantees the successful execution of this
transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private
email address above.

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant
documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please send me your
confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Please
observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would
be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to
invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply to

Mr. Clive Buthelezi
nklelectronic@aim.com
nklelectronic@sify.com
TEL: +27(0)86 609 6553
7TH MAY 2007.

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