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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: akiaandrewson <akia01andrewson@emsergipe.com>
Reply-To: akiaandrewson@excite.com
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:01:02 -0300
Subject: from akia


Zulberg Closeoff
Ernest Oppenheimer
Road Bruma Lake,
Johannesburg,2196
South Africa.
......................................................
RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 39,500.000.00 USD
THIRTY NINE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS]

Dear Sir,

We want to transfer to overseas ($$ 39,500.000.00 USD) Thirty nine million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,even an empty a/c can serve to receive this funds quitely.

I am Mr. Akia Andrewson,the accountant and personal confidant to Robert Hovey, who died in a plane crash on January 31 2000, when the plane, heading to San Francisco and Seattle from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, crashed into the Pacific Ocean not far from Los Angeles, Alaska Airlines Flight number 261.

You can view this website to see everything with your eye;www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

Mr. Robert Hovey, is an American, industrialist and investor who invest hudge ammount of money in different companies Here in South Africa including De Beer minig company South Africa, he died last year without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in South Africa which he opened in a prime bank in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2000.i have conducted a critical investigation and fund out that the business is very save for both of us.it does not have any legal implication.The amount involved is (USD 39,500,000.00)Thirty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to first transfer $9,500.000.00 (nine million five hundred thousand USD) from this money into a safe account abroad, after which we will transfer the remaining (30M) but I don't know any foreigner,I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr. Robert Hovey is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.

However, I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit.I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business.At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 50% of the total amount, 50% will be for me, we will bear the working cost together through the process of transfer to get payment approvals.I look forward to your earliest reply through my email

Sincerely,
Akia Andrewson.

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