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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • binzayed_mohammed@yahoo.co.uk
  • isaa_mohammed@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mohammed Bin Zayed." <binzayed_mohammed@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: isaa_mohammed@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 21:12:27 +0200
Subject: Salamaleku.

Mohammed Bin Zayed

National Bank of Dubai
Dubai, UAE
EMAIL. binzayed_mohammed@yahoo.co.uk


Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Mohammed Bin Zayed. I am the head of credit
and accounts department of National Bank of Dubai.,
Western District, UAE.
I write you in respect of a foreign customer who has a
Domicilliary accuont in my bank. His name
is Late Engr. Armen A. Seginian who died eight years
ago in a plane crash in an island in Iran. The name of the island is,
Kish Island
located in Iran and it is about 45 minutes to UAE. By air.
Since the demise of this our customer, Late Engr. Armen A. Seginian,
who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have
kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts
and since then nobody has come to claim the money
in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer.He had
only Six Million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars
(US$ 6.5, 000.000.00). in his a/c and the a/c
is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the
code or password of the deposit particulars.
As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to
produce the needed information other than my very self
considering my position in the bank.Based on the
reason that nobody has come forward to claim the
deposit as next of kin, I hereby ask for your co
operation in using your name as the next of kin to the
deceased to send these funds out to a foreign
off shore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself
and you.

At this point I am the only one with the information
because I have removed the deposit file from the safe.
By this doing, what is required of
you is to send an application laying claims of the
deposit as next of kin to the late Engineer. I will
need your full name and address, company or
residential, so that i can computerize them to tally
with next of kin column in the certificate of deposit.

Finally i want you to understand that the request for
a foreigner as the next of kin is occassioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that
reason alone a local cannot represent as next of
kin.When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how
the money will be split between us,also reply from this email
isaa_mohammed@hotmail.com

Trusting to hear from you,

I remain Respectfully yours,

Mohammed Bin Zayed.

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