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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:
  • "might come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • dvdego@yahoo.com.au (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?david=20ego?= <dvdego@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: david.ego@sify.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM UNION BANK (ACCOUNT OFFICER.)


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: dvdego@yahoo.com.au

My name is Mr. David Ego,this proposition might come to you as a surprise because we have not met before either physically or through any correspondence.

THE SUBJECT:

A Foreign Customer ( German property magnate -Andreas Schranner) who died along with his entire family on 25th day of July 2000 in a plane crash shortly after the Concorde plane took off from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport in FRANCE, deposited substantial amount of money with this bank before his untimely death.

For verification on MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER'S Death, Check BBC News on--http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

As his accounts Officer,I have made frantic efforts to locate any of his relative, because of his deposit with our Bank but till date nobody has showed up to lay claim of his deposit.

The Banking guidelines/ laws here in my Country stipulates that if any customer’s account remains unserviceable or dormant, and unclaimed after Six years, the amount will be transferred into the Bank treasury account with the Apex bank of my country for government use.

As a Banker I know what happens to such funds, the Executive Directors of this bank and top Government Officials will share it amongst themselves and send down memos for reconciliation of the deceased bank account.

THE PROPOSITION:

My request of a foreigner in this business is occasioned by the fact that an Indigene of My Country cannot stand as next of kin/ beneficiary to a deceased foreigner.

It is on this premise that I seek your cooperation to stand as a relative to Late MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER.

It is easy to provide all relevant Information/documents that will authenticate the Claim of this money in your favour as the only surviving relative to the late MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER and the money shall be released to you.

Your Physical presence is not needed at the Bank, I will Guide you on the Steps to take.

In All Fairness I am willing to share the money with you on an Agreed Terms.

For your Information, I have done my home work very well, before embarking on the process of moving this fund out of the bank by presenting you as the Next of Kin/ beneficiary to the Late MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER.

Awaiting your positive response.






- David Ego

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