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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:
  • "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)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +27788191145 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27870479283 (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.
  • dr_william_hammond@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • dr_william_hammonds@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR. WILLIAMS" <william_hammonds@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:36:39 +0200
Subject: Attn: Sir, BUSINESS/INVESTMENT PLANS( I WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU)!!!


>From the office of,
Dr William K. Hammond,
THE CHIEF AUDITOR (F.N.B).
JHB R.S.A.
SOUTH AFRICA
Attn:Sir,

I am Dr William K. Hammond,the Chief Auditor (F.N.B).. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On April 10, 2000, an Iraqi Foreign Oil Consultant/contractor with the BRITISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION Mr.Rahman Ibrahim. Made a numbered time (Fixed deposit) for 24 calendar months, valued at US$22,400,000.00 (Twenty two Million, Four hundred thousand dollars only) in this bank. Upon maturity after two year, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After four month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the British petroleum corporation that Mr.Rahman Ibrahim died as a result of torture in the hand of Sadam Hussein during one of his trips to his country Iraq . 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.Rahman Ibrahim did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

This sum of US$22,400,000.00 has been floating as unclaimed since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones. According to South Africa law at the expiration of 6 (SIX) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the South African Government if nobody applies to claim the fund and the five years has elapsed, my proposal is that i want to seek your consent as a foreigner to stand in as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the deceased so that the bank will transfer the money to your designated account.

All documents and proof to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. I have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that the business is a risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest will be for us and our investment purposes as I will leave Johannesburg by the end of the year. The sharing of the funds will be based according to agreement between you and us.

As soon as i receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in acceptance to our mutual business proposal,we will furnish you with the necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any conflict. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you.

PLEASE, I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT DOING BUSINESS OVER THE INTERNET IS RISKY. ENDEAVOR TO SEND YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER IN YOUR REPLY TO THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION.

You can call me immediately you receive this email for effective and confidential communication. Please you are advised to reply this email through my private Fax, Telephone and E-mail Address written below for confirmation and proof. I wait to hear from you urgently.

Phone: +27-788-19-11-45
Fax: +27-870-479-28-30
E-mail: dr_william_hammond@hotmail.com [mailto:dr_william_hammond@hotmail.com]
dr_william_hammonds@hotmail.com [mailto:dr_william_hammonds@hotmail.com]

Best Regards,
Dr.Williams k. Hammond




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