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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:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: markwilliam@walla.com
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:19:47 +0100
Subject: Mark William


URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL)

COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON

Good Day!

I am the manager of bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of the
(ABN AMRO BANK , SPAIN ). I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and
co-operation to carry out this transaction. We discovered some abandoned sum $15,500,000
(FIFTEEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS ) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer who died along-side his entire family in march last year in a terrorist
train bomb blast in Spain some few months ago. Since this development, we have advertised for his
next of kin or any close relations to come forward to claim this Fund, but nobody came yet to apply
for the claim.

To this effect, I and other officials in my department have decided to look for a trusted foreign
partner who can stand in as the next of kin of the deceased as we cannot do it only ourselves and claim
this Fund. We need a foreign partner to apply for the claim on our behalf because of the fact that
the customer was a foreign and we don't want this money to go into the treasury as unclaimed fund.

Every document to effect this process will emanate from my table and I will perfect every documents
to be in accordance with the banking law and guidelines, so you have nothing to worry about and we
have agreed that 30% of this money will be for you, while 10%will be for any expenses on both sides,
while 60% will be for my colleagues and me. If you are willing to help us, please indicate by replying
this letter and putting in your name, private telephone and fax numbers, permanent residential address
via my private email Address below .I awaits your immediate response to enable us start this transaction
as soon as I receive your reply, I will send you a text application form for immediate APPLICATIION OF CLAIM.

Please contact me even if you are not interested in my proposal to you to enable us scout for another
partner in the event of non-interest on your part. Thanks for your co-operation

E-MAIL :markwilliam@walla.com
Mr Mark William

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