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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • mycontact_hsbc@mac.com

Fraud email example:

From: "emma moore" <hsbc_moore@msn.com>
Reply-To: mycontact_hsbc@mac.com
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 02:35:24 +0000
Subject: ACT FAST IF WILLING

HSBC
Our Reference: 20 / 725 / NW
SUBJECT: SEEKING FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR INHERITANCE FUND OF TWO
MILLION THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUND STERLING.
Attn:
Dearest Friend,
My name is MR EMMANUEL MOORE I am a staff of HSBC BANK PLC in
UNITEDKINGDOM - LONDON. I work in the operations dept where
I serve as account officer to numerous customers. I am
contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of
money from a deceased account. Though I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried, but I am assuring you that every documents
that will bring about the success of this transaction would
be provided, and all will be well at the end of the day. I
decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction The deceased person who died Mr Abdou Elzanaty
died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October
1999 in an Egyptian airline 1990 with other passengers on
board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with the
Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his
death from the BBC WORLD NEWS published Website below.
WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make
claims for this money as his heir, because They all died in
the same accident himself and his wife (May their soul rest
in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.Upon this
discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next of kin to the deceased, As all documentations will
be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to the
funds? 2,300 000 00 GBP (Two million three hundred thousand
Great British pound sterling) which will be released in your
favor as the next of kin. Because after six years the money
will be called back to the bank Treasury as unclaimed bills
and the money will be shared amongst the directors of the
bank. So it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his
name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this
funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this
money among them selves at the end of the year.It may
interest you to know that we have secured from the probate
an order
of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message in acceptance
of our mutual benefit, endeavor by furnishing me with the
following information if you are interested.
1,Your Full Names and Address
2,Your Direct Telephone and Fax Numbers
3,The Full Details of your Bank and Address
4,A copy of your recent picture or passport
For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other. I
shall be compensating you with 35% of the above amount on
final conclusion of this project for your assistance, while
we will keep aside 5% for expenses that may occurre in the
process of this transaction from both parties, which will be
refunded at the end of the transaction, the balance 60%
shall be for me for investment purposes, because I intend to
retire after the conclusion of this transaction and relocate
to your country of residence .If this proposal is
acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me
immediately via this my most confidential email:
mycontact_hsbc@mac.com Do not take undue Advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you.
I await your positive response and God bless you.
your faithfully
EMMANUEL MOORE

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