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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: MR Peter Walker <pete2_walker@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:40:58 +0100
Subject: urgent.



>From the desk of:Mr. Peter Walker,
Auditor General of Natwest Bank Group UK.

I am Mr. Peter Walker, Auditor General of Natwest Bank Group UK. Natwest Bank
London. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £17 million BritishPounds Sterling
(Seventeen million British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers,
Late Robert Thorgrimson an American who unfortunately lost his life in an Alaska Airline plane crash.
He died alongside his wife on the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000. You
shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.

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 relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed
next of kin being his wife died along with him in the plane crash
leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is
therefore upon this discovery that I have decided to contact you to act as the
next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safe keeping and subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming for it and I don’t want this money to go back into Government
treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained as unclaimed
bill and after six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed
funds.

30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while I will visit your country for
the disbursement according to the percentage indicated above once this money
gets into your account.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive
this mail you should contact me by return mail.Please note that all necessary
arrangement for the smooth release of the funds has been finalised.
We will discuss much in detail when I do receive your response.

Please if you are interested in this project contact me for further directives.

Best regards,
Mr. Peter Walker

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