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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 about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • kelvinchax@yahoo.com
  • chundav@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: David Chun <chundav@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:05:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Assistance Ndeded - URGENT


Bills and Exchange
Standard Chartered
Bank London.

Sir,

I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring that this is real and genuine. I am a staff in bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of the Standard Chartered Bank London. I came to know you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this Confidential Transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.


We discovered an abandoned sum of US$14,320,000.00 (Fourteen million, three hundred and twenty thousand united states dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our customers who died along with his wife and entire family on 25th July 2000, Air France Concorde flight 4590 plane crash. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims for this money as the heir.
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, unfortunately, no family member nor relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased so that the funds (Twenty-six million united states dollars) can be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary's next of kin otherwise the fund will be returned to treasury as unclaimed funds. All documents to enable you receive this funds will be carefully worked out.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have in you, I await your reply.

Regards
Dr David Chun
Reply to this email: kelvinchax@yahoo.com or chundav@yahoo.com

You can visit this website for more information
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