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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • aawemark22@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mark=20Johnson?= <aawemark22@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: awemark@ny.com
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:20:05 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Natwest Bank Plc London UK


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: aawemark22@yahoo.co.in

Dear friend,


I apologise if the contents here under are contrary to your moral

ethics. But please treat with absolute secrecy and personal. I am

Mark Angelo, the Operation Manager in charge of Credit and

Foreign Bills of Natwest Bank Plc London UK, also an Account Officer to

a deceased customer of the Bank (Engr. Hunn Bode). We lost this customer and his family in a fatal auto crash here in London, some years back and his accounts of 5,500,000.00 POUND STERLIN (FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUND STERLIN) with us has been dormant and unclaimed due to unavailability of a next of kin /relatives to claim his fund and estate.


In accordance with the BRITISH Banking system, the Board of Directors

of the Bank met a forth night ago and resolved to turn the

estate of the deceased over to the Government having waited for too long without the deceased relatives/next of kin surfacing and if this is done, invaluably the fund and the estate will end up to becoming

Government property and it is as a result of this that i am moved to

contact you. in view of this, I am seeking for your co-operation and

good understanding to stand as the deceased next of kin to enable us

claim the inheritance before the time period given by Bank elapse.

If you are interested and in agreement with me, please write back

immediately. Be rest assured that it is risk free project and the

proceeding will be share 75% for me and 25% will be for you once the

fund are repatriated into your account.


I wait for your urgent reply.


Best regards,

Mark Angelo

- Mark Johnson

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