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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)
• 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.
  • davecolemanesq@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Nat West Bank London" <davecolemanesq@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:05:46 -1200
Subject: READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME

From The Desk Of Dave Coleman
Department: Senior Manager Accounts/Audit
Nat West Bank London

Good day, I apologize for sending you this sensitive
information via
e-mail Instead of a Certified/Post-mail. This is due to the
urgency and importance of the information. I humbly crave
your
indulgence to read this e-mail with all seriousness of
purpose devoid of any
doubt in your mind because this project is based on trust,
confidentiality and
sincerity of purpose in order to have an acceptable meeting
of the
minds.although, we have never met before, but i have every
reason to
believe that you are a highly respected personality,
considering the fact that
i got your e- mail address through internet my online
network, while
searching for a reliable and reputable person that can
handle this transaction.


I am a senior manager accounts/audit in Nat West Bank
London. I am
writing following an opportunity in my office that will be
of immense
benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum
of £10.5 (Ten million five hundred Thousand
Pounds Only) in an account that belong to one of our foreign
customers late
Mr.Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his
life in the
plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on
January 31
2000,including his wife and only daughter.

You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site
which i got
during my investigation;

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his
next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money,
because we
cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of
kin or
relation to the decease as indicated in our banking
guidelines.

Unfortunately i discovered that his supposed next of kin
being his
only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving
nobody
with the knowledge of the funds behind for claim. It is
therefore
upon this discovery that i and two other officials in this
department now
decided to make business with you and release the money to
you as the
next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping
and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
don't want this
money to go back into government treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
unclaimed money
after Nine years will be transferred into banking treasury
account
as unclaimed funds.

We agreed that 35% of this money would be for you as foreign
partner,
while the balance will be for my colleagues and I.

I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated above, once this money gets into your
account.
Please be honest with me.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately
indicate
your interest by a return e-mail and enclose the

Following information:

1. Full name
2: Your private telephone and Fax numbers.
3. Occupations and Nationality.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.As soon
as you
receive this email,please contact me through my private
E-mail address (davecolemanesq@yahoo.fr )

Please note that all the necessary arrangement for the
smooth release
of these funds to you has been finalized.We will discuss
much in
details when i do receive your response.

Best regards
Dave Coleman

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