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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)
• 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.
  • collumbuswalter_k5@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "collumbus10" <collumbuswalter_k6@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 14:37:47 -1200
Subject: BUSINESS TRANSACTION FROM DR WALTER.C


FROM THE DESK OF
DR. WALTER COLLUMBUS,
MANAGER, ACCOUNTS AND
OPERATIONS,
FIRSTRAND BANK JOHANNESBURG.
SOUTH AFRICA.
E MAIL;
collumbuswalter_k5@yahoo.com
Tel: +874-7635-94445,
Fax: +874-7635-
97889
RE: TRANSFER OF US$56.559
MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
I am Dr Collumbus Walter the operational manager in account
management section in charge of credit and foreign bills in
a prime bank here in South Africa. On a routine inspection,
I discovered a dormantdomiciliary account with Balance of
US$56,559,000(fifty six Million Five Hundred and Fifty Nine
Thousand U.S dollars Only).
The account holder was in charge of President Saddam
Hussein's secret crude oil transactions in Africa. On
further discreet investigation, I discovered that the
account holderdied long ago with his family on a
fatal Auto-accident leaving no beneficiary to the account
and no other person knows about it.
I am in close contact with the bank manager here who is my
partner and is willing to approve the transfer to any
reliable and trustworthy foreigner with foreign bank account
because the former owner of the a/c is a foreigner. The
account has no written
or oral WILL attached to it.
I will provide the necessary information and documents
needed in order to claim this money if you agree to receive
this fund in your account pending my arrival in your country
for sharing and on receipt of your Bank Account Details
where the fund will be transferred. We will start with
USD20, 000,000. At the end, 80%
will be for me and my partner, 15% for you and 5% will be
set aside for expenses incurred on both sides during the
transfer.
South African Civil Service Code of Conduct Laws that
prohibits Civil Servants from operating Private Foreign
Accounts affects us.
Your cooperation is highly needed.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr Collumbus Walter





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