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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "contact me immediately" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Beeran Karthic" <beeran_017@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: beeran_karthic@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:02:41 +0100
Subject: Important Massage(call me)

Hello,

I’m, Mr.Beeran Karthic, the manager of bill and Exchange at the foreign
remittance Department, Metropolitan Bank London, England. In my Department
we discovered an abandoned sum of GBP 4.3Million pound sterling in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign late customer from your country,
which died Along with the family in November 2003 in a plane Crash.

Since we got the information about their death, we have been expecting
he/her next of kin to come over and claim this fund, because we cannot
release it unless some one applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our bank guide lines and laws. Fortunately nobody
show up for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the fund to you as the next of kin or cousin to
the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't want this fund to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
bill.
The finance institute law and guidelines here stipulates that if such fund
remained unclaimed after four years, the fund will be transferred into the
bank treasury as unclaimed Fund.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and a British cannot stand as next Of kin to a foreigner.

Your full data, your Private telephone and fax number for easy and
Effective communication and location where the fund will be transfer. Upon
receipt of your reply, I will send to you by Fax or email the text of the
application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is hitch-free and you should not Entertain any atom of fear, as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer. Contact me immediately as soon
as you received this mail, trusting to hear from you immediately my
Number00-44-7024036088.

meanwhile, the ratio is negotiable.

Yours faithfully.
Beeran Karthic.

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