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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)
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "is 100% 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 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.
  • robert_blanc2006@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ROBERT LE BLANC" <robert_blanc5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: robert_blanc2006@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:23:54 +0100
Subject: (CONFIDENTIAL)

FROM THE DESK OF
MR ROBERT LE BLANC
Email:robert_blanc2006@yahoo.co.uk
Attention: Sir/Madam,
 
                                  Re: Inheritance Fund
 
My name is Mr. Robert Le Blanc, I got your email address from the
BRITISH NETWORK EXCHANGE online in LONDON . I am contacting you on a
business involving a huge sum of money from a deceased person deposited in the bank where I work here in London. Though I know a business of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and curious, but I promise you that it is 100% risk free.
 
Previously I discovered an abandoned deposit of money owned by one of
our foreign customers Late Dr. Michael Woods; who died along with his
wife and twoKids in an automobile crash. He deposited this funds amounting to $18,410,000 (Eighteen Million four Hundred and Ten Thousand United States Dollars), for safe keeping in Bank here in London and our filed record shows that the funds was actually for a project he wanted to start in the near future (a multi million Dollar steel planting in Florida, USA), before his sudden and untimely death.
 
Since his death none of his relations or next-of-kin has come forward
to claims this fund as the heir. So therefore I kindly seek your
permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased; because my bank will not release the money unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as Indicated in our operating guidelines. Please I need your urgent co-operation because I do not want this money to go into the Bank Treasury. The UK banking policy and guideline stipulates that any unclaimed money belonging to a deceased person for the period of 5 years will be transferred into the BanksTreasury as an unclaimed debt. In this regard please indicate your interest by sending me your details as follow:
 
1. Beneficiary full Name and Address,
2. Direct Telephone and Fax number,
3. Occupation and Position,
4. Nationality and Date of birth,
5. Marital status, 6. Gender/Sex.
 
These requirements will enable me prepare all necessary documents that will enable you file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary Approvals in your favour before the transfer could be processed. Bear in mind that at the end of this business I will compensating you with 30% of the total Money, please do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed on you, God bless.
Best Regards,
 
Mr. Robert Le Blanc
web: http://www.credit-suisse.com/uk

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