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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your urgent reply" (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 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.
  • +448701300873 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Family Mail" <family_mail01@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: good.tidings@ny.com
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:38:40 +0000
Subject: Profitable Investment

>From the desk of
Dr Dennis Moore,
Account Officer,
Global Trust Bank(UK),
London-UK.
Fax:+44-870-130-0873

Hello there

I am Dr Dennis Moore, an account officer of the late Mr Alex Guest a
customer of Global Trust Bank (UK). I know we havenot met before but I am
contacting you with due sense of humanity responsibility
and the few awareness that you will give it a mutual understanding I have
urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.
On June 6, 1997, a Foreign Construction firm consultant/contractor in London
-UK, Mr. Alex Guest made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve
calendar months, valued at Ten Million, five hundred thousand Dollars in my
branch.
Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address, but
got no reply.
After a month,we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract
employers,
that Mr. Alex Guest died from an automobile accident.
On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL,
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made
further investigation and discovered that Mr. Alex Guest did not declareany
kin or relations in all his official documentations, including his Bank
Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum has carefully been moved out of my bank to a security and finance
company in Europe.
No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to banking policy,at
the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of
the bristish Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as the next of kin to
stand in as the owner of the consignment with the security company,I
deposited it in a security and finance company in
Europe .I am writing you because I as a public servant (Account
Officer)cannot operate a foreign
account or have an account that is more than $1m. I want to present you as
the owner of the consignment in the security company so you can be able to
claim them with the help of an attorney.
This is simple. I will likeyou to provide immediately your full names and
address so that the Attorney will prepare the necessary documents which will
put you in place as the owner of the consignment.

The money will be moved out for us to share any expenses that may incurre in
the process of this
transaction will be deducted ones you have full custody of the funds.Before
we sharing the money.
There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be
done by the Attorney and this will guarantees the successful execution of
this transaction.
If you are interested, do reply immediately via my email address/Fax Number
Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant
documents that will help you understand the transaction.
Do observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction
would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your
assistance to invest my share in your country i.efor example (Buying of
properties like houses, hotels etc) Do send me your full contact details,so
that we can have a smooth communication.
Awaiting your urgent reply via my email.
Thanks and regards.
Dr Dennis Moore

Dr Dennis Moore,
Account Officer,
Global Trust Bank(UK)
London-UK.
Tel/Fax: +44-870-130-0873

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