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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • dr_chang2000@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DR.CHANG PETER" <chang_pet2001@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: dr_chang2000@myway.com
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:08:31 +0200
Subject: DEAR FRIEND

From the Desk of
Dr.Peter Chang
Attn:Sir/Madam,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to you to transfer to
your overseas account a huge amount of funds deposited in one of the Prime
Banks here in Cameroon.I am counting on your ability and reliability to
execute this transaction in accomodating this magnitude of funds into any
of your designated Bank account pending my resignation and arrival for
investment opportunities in your country.What I require is an individual
/organisation that would be capable and fit enough to provide either an
existing Bank account or set up a new Bank Account immediately to
accomodate this funds.Even an empty bank account can serve to receive
this funds as long as you will remain honest to me till we actualise this
interest.
My name is Dr.peter chang,the Director of Bill and Exchange at the
Foreign Remittance Department of a reputable Bank here in Cameoon.I
am writing you on the strength of your impressive managerial records
I got through your Country Trade journal through a friend who runs a
consultancy firm.He assured me of your capability and reliability to
champion this business opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned Sum of $18.5M USD
Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars),in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer an American by name: Mr.Gerald
Welsh,he died in a plane crash on October 31, 1999. Since I got the
information about his death,I have been expecting his Next of Kin to
come over to claim his fund to no avail,hence I am soliciting your
surport in this regards.This funds can not be remitted because it is
against the Policy of our Bank to release it,unless someone applies for
it as Next Of Kin or a relation to the deceased,and the person must be
a foreigner as indicated in our Banking guidelinesOn futher investigations
I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [Heir/WILL]hence
the Fund is floating and if I do not remit this funds out urgently it will
be forfeited based on our Banking policies.
It is therefore upon this discovery that other officials and I,in my Bank
decided to make this business proposal to you in remitting this funds to
you as the Next Of Kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we do not want this money
to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.The Banking law and guideline
here stipulates that if such funds remained unclamed after five years, the
fund should be transfered into the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and I can not stand as the
Next Of Kin to a foreigner as it is against our Banking laws,guideline
and ethics.We have agreed that 25% of this money will be yours as a foreign
partner in executing this transaction, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account,and 75 % would be for my colleagues and I.There after I
shalll visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages
indicated.
Kindly get back to me if interested to enable me provide you with more
details as to how we shall proceed with the claims.I expect you to observe
utmost confidentiality and be rest assured that this transaction would be
profitable for both of us without any risk involved.
Awaiting your urgent response.

Best Regards.
Dr.Peter Chang
Email:dr_chang2000@myway.com

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