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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • +447031747136 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr.Burnett <jburnett2226@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: jburnett1000@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:25:54 +0800
Subject: urgent.


From:Mr.James Burnett
Phone:+44 703 174 7136

Attn:Sir/Madam.

I am manager of one of the leading bank in
United Kingdom in my bank (Royal Bank Of Scotland ) we discovered an
abandoned large sum of money (US$15.5M) belonging to one of our
Foreign Customer Dr. George Brumley an American Nationality, a
businessman, who was involved in air crash along with his family. You
can confirm from the website below.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
No other person knows about this account or anything concerning these
funds, no beneficiary and nobody have ever come for the claims and if
we do not remit this funds out it will be confiscated into the
Government Treasure as dormant funds. I am seeking for your
Co-operation to present or front you as the beneficiary of the funds.
Hence I contacted you since in our records/data base the deceased does
not specify any body as beneficiary.
However, if you are interested in this transaction and willing to
allow us to front you as beneficiary, first before we could do
anything we are to have a common understanding among ourselves because
the amount of money we are talking about is large sum of funds. I wish
to inform you that we will use my influence, as manager of the bank to
project you as the beneficiary of the funds and approve the funds over
to you, as soon as
I have your maximum support and confidentiality from you I will send
you or furnish you all details documents regarding this transaction.
Please bear in mind that, if there is going to be any problem we will
never even started or rather embarked on it neither contacting you,
considering our position at the bank, our life entitlement (pension
scheme). This is our lifetime opportunity, we planned, and we
investigate properly and waited patiently for this opportunity.
Consequently as a result of the urgency and time being of the essence
in this transaction, I will appreciate you forward to me the following
information again for confirmations before we proceed or if possible
you call me immediately on my direct telephone number +44 703 174 7136
to enable me brief you about this transaction.
1 Your direct confidential (Cell) Number and
2 Your direct confidential fax number
3 Your full names
4 Residential address
5 Occupation /profession.
6 Your Age/Sex
As soon as you furnish me these information's, we will proceed to fill
in your names and your informations as the beneficiary of the funds in
the bank data base and as well back dated the informations on our
system as if it is late Dr. George Brumley who specified you as
beneficiary of the funds. Then I will provide to you with all
necessary relevant documents and proved of the source of the funds
that you will use to put in application to my bank as beneficiary of
these funds in question.
The Strategy is to use our influence as managers of the bank to make
you the beneficiary and approve the funds to you as the
beneficiary/heirs of the funds since no beneficiary. So, If you decide
to render your service to us in this regard, 30% of the total sum of
USD30.5M will be for you and 60% for me and my colleagues why 10% for
expenses. I wish to inform you that you will be required to advise on
lucrative areas for investment and also assist us in purchase of
properties as soon as the funds arrives your country.
Secondly, I will want to give you the assurance that this project is
scheduled to be completed with 10 to 14 working days if all
instructions are followed up religiously. But you have to assure and
guarantee me that you are going to be trustworthy and honesty as soon
as the funds arrives in your hands because human behaviors funny at
times especially when it come to money issue. Though, I intend to send
you a copy of my ID or international passport for you to know whom
exactly you are dealing with in this mutual project
I will appreciate you use this email address in subsequent
correspondence because it more reliable and confidential to me and
please I will advise you treat this transaction very confidential
because for our security reasons, do not disclose to any body, human
are sometimes very funny and jealous as result you can't trust any
body so you have to keep everything regarding this transaction very
secrets for our security reasons as I am still working in the bank.
I await hearing from you soonest.
Thank you,



Mr. James Burnett

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