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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "top of the day to you" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "trunk boxes" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
• 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.
  • bill.williams1960@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR BILL WILLIAMS" <billwilliams@blackglobalnetwork.net>
Reply-To: billwilliams01@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:31:41 -0500
Subject: Top of the day to you.



 Top of the day to you.

Let me crave your indulgence to introduce myself to you .My name is
MR.Bill Williams and I am working with AL-MANSOUR OIL SERVICES LTD, a
Foreign Oil Services Company based in United Kingdom (UK). Late
Engineer Abdullah Mohammad Al-Mansour, a Jordanian National and the
Managing Director, AL-MANSOUR OIL SERVICES LTD is a
consultant/contractor with the BRITISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION. In his
bid to evade excessive Income Tax,he usually Transfers his money
through a Financial Institution in Europe as a Trunk Boxes tagged as
Artefacts/Valuables.

Unfortunately, my boss - Engineer Abdullah Mohammad Al-Mansour died in
a car accident here in London with his wife and only Child. Since
then, I have been trying to trace any of his relations but all to no
avail. Because of his sudden death in a Car Crash, he did not make a
WILL before he died and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered
thatEngineer Abdullah Mohammad Al-Mansour did not declare any kin or
relations in all his official documents, including his Deposit
Documents.

By virtue of my position as the Chief Accountant of AL-MANSOUR OIL
SERVICES LTD, I have in my possession all documents containing all
information about the last trunk box he deposited in a Security Vault
of a Financial Institution here in London for onward transfer to
Jordan. The company believed the declaration of the content of the box
as Artefacts /Valuables by my boss but the real content is money -
(US$7.3M) Seven Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.


Knowing that the security company will appropriate the funds or report
to British Government if they discover that the content of the box is
money, I decided to seek your consent to stand in as the next of kin
to the deceased-Engineer Abdullah Mohammad Al-Mansour so that the
Financial House will transfer the Box (money) to you after all the
necessary arrangements.Because AL-MANSOUR OIL SERVICES LTD is a
foreign firm, I need a trustworthy foreigner like you to claim this
box (money) from the Security Company and safeguard the money in your
account pending when we will meet in your country for sharing and
investing in any lucrative business in your country.

All I require from you are your honest Co-operation, Confidentiality
and  trust to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you
that this transaction  will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law and it will be of
mutual benefit to both of us if you assist me to a logical conclusion
of this business deal.
The proceeds of the transaction will be shared 50% each after expenses
are reimbursed. Kindly indicate your willingness through my private
email below and we shall proceed with the initial step for the claim.
The entire project is expected to last for about ten working days. If
this proposal is acceptable to you, donot take undue advantage of the
trust I have reposed on you after retrieving this funds from the
financial company.
Acknowledge the receipt of this proposal immediately and please send
along, your full name and address, company;s name and address, private
telephone or mobile phone and fax numbers for immediate briefing on
this transaction.
 
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Bill Williams.
Private Email:bill.williams1960@yahoo.co.in

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