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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • pauleech@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR.PAUL LEECH" <p.leech@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:21:48 -0200
Subject: YOUR PERUSAL

DEAR FRIEND,

I am Mr.paul leech Executive Director of the Hang Seng
Bank Ltd, taiwan.

An Iraqi named Haider Hanoon,a business man made a
numbered fixed deposit of (346,736,899.68 TWD) for 18
calendar months, this is valued to Fourty Four
million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only
in my branch.
Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during
the war, four years ago (2003). Again after the war
another notification was sent and still no response came
from him. We later found out that Haider Hanoon and his
family had been killed during the war in Gunfire that
hit their home at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well
was.

After further investigation it was also discoveredthat
Haider Hanoon did not declare any next of kin inhis
official papers including the paper work of his
bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time we
was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit
in my bank. So, Fourty Four million Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank
and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What
bothers me is that according to the laws of my country at
the expiration five years six months the funds will revert
to the ownership of the taiwan Government if nobody
applies to claim the funds.

My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin
in a position to instruct HANG SENG BANK to release the
deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon
receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money
with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as
the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you.
We share the procentange 50/50. I would have gone ahead to
ask the funds be released to me, but that would have
drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the
deposit.I assure you that I could have the deposit
released to you within a few days. I will simply inform
the bank of the final closing of the file relating to
Haider Hanoon I will then officially communicate with my
Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With
these: all is done. I am aware of the Consequences of
this proposal.

should be interested in executing this with me;
indicate your interest by sending me the following:

1. YOUR NAME
2. YOUR RESIDENT ADDRESS
3. YOUR OCCUPATION
4. YOUR PHONE NUMBER
5. DATE OF BIRTH
6. COUNTRY OF RESIDENT

Your response with the requested information should be
sent to reach me at my personal email address below:
MR.PAUL LEECH
pauleech@yahoo.co.uk

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