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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:
  • "million 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)
  • ",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)
  • "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 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.
  • phph1968@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "paul hammond" <phammond2@tulsaemail.com>
Reply-To: phph1968@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:44:00 +0100
Subject: From, Mr. Paul Hammond


From, Mr. Paul Hammond
21 route de Maconnex,
Genève 10,
BCV bank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise,
SWITZERLAND .

NB PLEASE CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE MAIL URGENTY!
{phph1968@yahoo.com}

Dear sir,

In order to transfer out (US$26 M) twenty six million
United States Dollars) from BCV bank, Banque
Cantonale Vaudoise SWITZERLAND . I have the courage to
ask you to look for a reliable and honest person who
will be capable for this important business believing
that you will never let me down either now or in
future.
I am Mr. Paul Hammond, the Chief auditor of BCV Bank
(SWITZERLAND).There is an account opened in this bank
in 1990 and since 1998 nobody has operated n this
account again. After going through some old files in
the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this
money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner
of this account is Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER who died with
his wife and their only daughter on February16, 1998 in
a plane crash. No other person knows about this account or
any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that this company does not know anything about this
account; He was the Governor of Taiwan
Central (Reserve) Bank. The said amount is
U.S$26.000, 000.00 dollars (twenty Million, US
Dollars).Their death was occurred naturally. Please View
this website:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/

I want to first transfer US$6,000,000 [six million United
States Dollars] from this money into a safe foreigners
account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any
foreigner. Kindly get back to me using my direct email below and let's
discuss

phph1968@yahoo.com

Regards,

Paul Hammond.

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