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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:

• 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.
  • contactrobertjenkins@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "ROBERT JENKINS" <robertjenkins01@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:06:57 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL''''

greetings,

this is a proposal in context but soliciting for your
unreserved

assistance in carrying out an urgent transaction. i am
robert jenkins

account officer of the hsb ltd.

You have not gotten this email in error; i had to
search for your

contact myself on the internet,on behalf of my late
client Gen ibrahim

moussa who was killed in a plane crash on a business
trip october 2001

on his way to Novosibirsk Siberia from isreal was a
successfull business

man who made a numbered fixed deposit, when the money
was matured

several notice was sent to him, even during the war
with no response, we

later found out that the general and his family had
died in a plane

crash; kindly refer too the following links:

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/10/09/ukraine.plane/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,566382,00.html


after further investigations we noticed that the Gen
did not declare any

next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his bank

deposit; and he also confided in me the last time he
was at my office

that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank.

no doubt this proposal will make you apprehensive,
please i employ you

to observe complete confidentiality and be assured
that this transaction

would be most profitable for both of us. Kindly send
your response to: contactrobertjenkins@hotmail.com

i will engage the service of an attorney who will
prepare all the

necessary legal documents to back up our claim. It is
important that we

observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning
this issue.

i will provide you with more details as soon as i hear
from you.

kind regards,

Robert Jenkins.

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