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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:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • +447024098368 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sgt Ferry Bakker" <sgt_ferry7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sgtferrybakker2@o2.pl
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:37:28 +0000
Subject: Urgent Reply

Urgent Reply


MR.FERRY BAKKER.
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED,UK BRANCH
65 CORNHILL LONDON EC3V 3NP,UNITED KINGDOM.

Greetings,

I would not have used this medium (Internet) but I choose to reach you
through it because it is the fastest,surest and

most secured medium of communication. However,this correspondence is
un-official and private,and it should be

treated as such. I also guarantee you that this
transaction is risk free from all what you may think of.

I am Mr.FERRY BAKKER,an account officer with SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL BANK
LIMITED (London Branch), I am

contacting you based on trust and confidentiality that will be attached to
this transaction.The Management and the

Legal department of our BANK (SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED UK) in a
recent meeting,recommended that

the account of one of my late customer and branch depositor MR. YUGUANG
ZHENG,should be declared dormant,confisticated and the depositor's fund
sent to the Bank Treasury according to UK Banking and financial law.

The depositor,YUGUANG ZHENG died in world trade centre and was one of the
victims of the september 11,2001

incident that befall the United State of America,ever since his death the
bank has made series of efforts to contact any

of the relatives to claim this money but without success,
you can confirm through this site:

http://www.september11victims.com/september11Victims/victims_list.htm

MR.YUGUANG ZHENG is an account holder in my branch, he owns a dollar account
with the sum of US$8.3M (Eight

Million,three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) deposited in a
Secret account with my branch .In fact,

since his death in 2001, no next of kin of the Dollar account
holder nor any his relative has shown up to claim his money this is because
he has the account as a secret account and

he left all the documents for the deposit with me.

Having waited since 2001,I am now fully convinced that no one would turn up
to claim his money before the bank

stipulated collection deadline and this is where I am interested and why I
want to present you now to my bank as the

relation of the deceased,I will use my position here in the bank
and I will give you the relevant documents and contacts to file in the claim
application and then effect the approvals

for the transfer of the money to your nominated bank account OR your
provided address, I will be the one to provide

the vital documents for the claims of the money and then advise you exactly
how we should handle it.

Please include your telephone/fax number/ Home Address when replying this
mail and I will give you more

information as soon as you indicate your willingness to assist in this
transaction.
I will use my position to get all internal documentations to back up the
claims.Do not be bothered that you are not

related in any way to him as I am in position to afix your name as the next
of kin.
The whole Procedures will last only 7 working days to get the fund retrieved
successfully without trace even in future.

After the transfer of the money we shall share the money 60-40,that is I
will have 60% while you will have 40%.

I await your urgent response to this mail.Reply to my
Private Email: sgtferrybakker2@o2.pl or call me on my direct telephone:
+44-7024098368.

Remain blessed,

MR.FERRY BAKKER.
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED,UK(London Branch)
Private Email: sgtferrybakker2@o2.pl
Direct Telephone:+44-7024098368

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