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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)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • daviesmark_2008@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3adaviesmark_2008@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "davies mark" <davies_mark@klikni.cz>
Reply-To: daviesmark_2008@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 07:16:14 -0700
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT


From The Desk of the Vice President
Custody and Clearing Dept
HSBC Bank Plc 24th Floor
8 Canada Square, London E14 5hq
www.hsbc.co.uk
daviesmark_2008@yahoo.co.uk
PRIVATE AND URGENT
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a Huge sum of money
from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction.PROPOSITION:

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million Dollars)
in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers late MORRIS
THOMPSON who died along with his entire family. Since his death, none of his
next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the
heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for
claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines.Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you
stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be
carefully worked out by us for the funds US$20,000,000.00) to be released in
your favor as the beneficiary's next of kin.It may interest you to note that
we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of
deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the
following; 1. Your full name and address.2. Direct Telephone and fax
numbers.3.

Occupation/Company Name(If any)4. International Passport/Driver's
LicenseThese requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favor before the
transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 2 Million Dollars on
final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us. Your share
stays with you while the rest shall be for us for investment purposes.If you
find yourself able to work with me, contact me only through my confidential
email address:daviesmark_2008@yahoo.co.uk<address%3Adaviesmark_2008@yahoo.co.uk>
And the private phone number I shall provide in recipient of your response
to my proposal. This is because my official lines are not totally secure
lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer
care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy. You can as well click
on this link below and click on my names on the page to know what I am
talking
about.http://www.hsbcnet.com/hsbc/home/contact-us/europe/united-kingdomPlease
observe this instruction religiously. I send you this mail not
without a measure of fear as to what the consequences may be, but I know
within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and
riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed
in you, I await your urgent mail.Regards,Yours Truly
,Davies Mark

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