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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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 business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "my direct telephone number" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27724882310 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27866682311 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • nkuhlunicolas200@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ni nk <n_n_nicolas3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <nkuhlunicolas200@aim.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:09:21 +0200
Subject: !!Greetings!!



From: Mr. Nkuhlu NicolasStandard Bank of South AfricaPretoria South Africa.Direct Line: +27-72-488-2310Direct Fax No: +27-866-682-311Email:nkuhlunicolas200@aim.com
My name is Mr. Nkuhlu Nicolas, the manager, Credit and Foreign Bills of STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH
AFRICA (STD). I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with account number
908-14-255-114 whose name is Chung Timothy, (Mr.), an American citizen who died in a plane crash
[Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers onboard on August 6, 1997.And for your perusal
you can view this website Ref:

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list
Since the demise of this customer, I personally have watched with keen interest to see the next
of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$15.5M (Fifteen
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which has been with our branch for a very
long time. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin as
no one has come up as his next of kin. And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to
stay more than ten years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed
fund after this period.

In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal when I was making a research on a
foreigner I will use in this great opportunity. For your assistance I am willing to give you 20%
of the total amount. Upon the receipt of your response, I will send you by fax or e-mail the
letter of application which you will type sign and send back to our Bank to enable us start the
processing of this claim.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer of this fund has been
finalized, this transaction will be completed within five banking days of receiving your
response, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased.

When you receive this mail, Kindly call me on my direct telephone number (+27-72-488-2310) or
reply by email to my personal address (nkuhlunicolas200@aim.com ) immediately. Please do include
your full given names as they are in your identity document and your private Tel/Fax numbers for
quick communication as time is of essence.
Thank you and have a blessed day, warm regards.
Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Nkuhlu NicolasStandard Bank of South AfricaPretoria South Africa.DirectLine: +27-72-488-2310DirectFax No: +27-866-682-311Email:nkuhlunicolas200@aim.com
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