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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:
  • "million 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.
  • gkbrader9@yahoo.com.hk
  • kbrader4@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?big5?q?brader=20karl?= <k2brader@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 04:51:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT REPLY


§Ú¦³·sªº¹q¶l¦a§}¡I§A²{¥i¹q¶lµ¹§Ú¡Gkbrader9@yahoo.com.hk

Your Attention;


Greetings to you and your family. I am with Investment Banking, RBA


Zentralbank,Bern,Switzerland.

I am contacting you independently as no one is informed of this communication.On July 6,


2004, a client of ours, a consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation

though now deceased, had a financial portfolio with accrued profit and interest standing at


21 Million United States Dollars, which he requested be liquidated from his accounts and


have it deposited with our affiliate investment and security firm, RBA FINANZ for numbered


fixed deposit for 6 (six) calendar months for a good investment interest rate(call deposit)

as advised by me at that time. I undertook all the processes and ensured I followed his


precise Instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited at RBA FINANZ.

Upon maturity several notice was sent to him and no response came from him.

Another notification was sent last year and still no response came from him.

The Bank officially sent a two-man delegate to his contract employers, Chinese Solid


Minerals Corporation and to his forwarding address in Malaysia where he resides only to


find out that the business mogul and his family perished in the Tsunami disaster.

After further investigations, it was also discovered that the decease did not declare any


next of kin in his official papers,including the paper work of his bank deposit. So, Twenty

One Million United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come


forward to claim it. According to the laws of my country, since the contract period has


long expired, after rolling over, the funds will revert to the ownership of the Government


if nobody applies to claim the funds.

Please note that, I alone have the deposit details and I am prepared to share the deposit


with you in halves plus interest accrued till date. That is: I will simply nominate you as

the next of kin and have RBA FINANZ Release the deposit to you and we share the proceeds


50/50. I need your partnership as a foreigner to ask the funds be released to you. I assure


you that with all legal paperwork secured in your favor and drawn up in my bank, the


deposit should be released to you within a few days via direct transfer to your provided


account.

I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all


documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the deposit to be released in your


favor as the beneficiary next of kin. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in

acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with your full names, address


and confidential direct phone numbers as well as email address for communication.

These requirements will enable us file letters of claim to the appropriate departments for


necessary approvals in your favor for the deposit to be released to you. We both stand to


be well compensated on final conclusion of this project, I intend to go into lucrative


investments with you as the funds manager, that is if you are willing.

If this business endeavor is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I


bestow in you.

Please reply to this email:(kbrader4@myway.com) with your advised information, I would


appreciate the mutual relationship.

Regards,

Karl Brader



- karl brader

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