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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:

• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447040112075 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448716616270 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • martlower@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • martlower@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mart Lower" <omustafa_004@msn.com>
Reply-To: martlower@excite.com
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:49:04 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

Dear Si/Madamr,
My name is Martin Lower. I am the auditor general, FIBI first International
bank of Israeli ,Douglas, British Isles, United Kingdom. I am contacting you
in a non-official capacity and therefore require your utmost
confidentiality. During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating
fund£5,700,000.00 (Five Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Pounds) in an
account opened with the bank on March 15th 2000 and since November 2001
nobody has operated on this account again.
After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the
owner of the account died without an [heir], hence the money has been
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited.
The owner of this account was Mr. Edward Braun, a Dutch and a
consultant/contractor with Horwath Clark Whitehill, a leading firm ofproject
and cost management consultants. On further investigation, I discovered that
the owner of the account died from air disaster on November 12th, 2001 on
board American Airlines Flight ..: 587 AC Type: Airbus A-300-605R
Registration: N14053 at Belle Harbor, Queens, New York.
It was discovered that he died without making a will (en-state) and all
attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. It was also discovered
that late Mr. Edward Braun did not declare any next of kin or relations on
all his official documents, including his bank Deposit paper work here at
the bank. The total sum, £5,700,000.00 is still in my bank and the interest
is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one
will ever come forward to claim it.
We will start the first transfer with £2,700,000.00 (Two Million Seven
Hundred Thousand Pounds).
Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the transfer of the balance £ 3,000,000.00 (Three Million
Pounds into your bank account bringing the sum total to £5,700,000.00 (Five
Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Pounds). I am contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can only be approved to a foreigner with a valid
international passport/ driver’s license and foreign account. If this
proposal is acceptable to you, I shall present you as a foreign partner to
stand in as the next of kin so that you and I can benefit from this
investment equally (i.e. 50% for you and 50% for me). I shall send you
either by fax or email a scanned copy of the FIBI Bank beneficiary’s claims
application form as well as detailed information on how this deal would be
transacted.
I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that
will protect us from any breach of the law, as I will use my position to
secure approvals and guarantee the successful execution of this transaction.
To commence this transaction, you would have to indicate your interest by a
return mail to my above Email address or fax your response to my fax number:
+44-871 661 6270 with your private telephone number for voice contact and
fax number so that I can provide you with details and relevant documents
that will help you understand the transaction better.
Regards,
Martin Lower
Ridgeway Street
IM99 1BU Douglas
British Isles.
Tel: +44-704-011-2075
Fax: +44-871-661-6270
E-amil:martlower@excite.com
E-amil:martlower@yahoo.ca


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