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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:
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "transferred into your 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)
  • "into 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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: john pasteiner <johnpasteiner23@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: johnpasteiner@myway.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:36:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear VICTIMNAME,


MR.JOHN PASTEINER
UNITED KINGDOM

Dear VICTIMNAME,

I am MR. JOHN PASTEINER. I am an employee of a commercial Bank here in
the UNITED KINGDOM. I am the personnal account officer of Late Mr.
Paul VICTIMNAME, who was a National of your country before his untimely
death with hiswife.

They had no children. On Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004 our customer and his
wife died on board a PLANE CRASH in Indonesia (Indonesia Airline
Flight JT583).

The plane crash was in the news. See link below for more detail
information:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/30/content_396081.htm

Since then no body has come forward to claim his funds and our bank
AUTHORITIES are making serious arrangement to confiscate his money. In
order to avert this negative development, I now seek your permission to
have you stand as a RELATIVE to the deceased and equally act as his
next-of-kin since you have the same last name with him so that the
proceeds of his account valued at US$9.5 million Dollars will be paid into your nominated bank account before our bank authorities confiscated or declared his bank account unserviceable and this will happen if no body comes forward toclaim the money.

I am assuring you that this transaction will be executed under
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law.

Please, do not hesitate to put up your utmost effort in handling this
transaction to the highest level of business. I have reposed higher
confidence in your ability to handle this matter perfectly and confidentially. Also, your telephone number will be highly required to enable us communicate with each other on daily basis.
I want you to understand that your involvement in this matter is to
maintain absolute secrecy and keep the spirit of teamwork; you do not
have to disclose the nature of this transaction to anybody for security
reasons. I am serious minded person and I mean business.
The funds will be shared thus, after it has been transferred into your bank account.

1. 50% of the money will go to you for acting as the next-of-kin
2. 50% to me as the originator of the transaction.

Please indicate your interest to the above email address
as soon as possible to acknowledge your interest and to let you know the next step of action towards the success of this transaction.

Best regards,
MR. JOHN PASTEINER

The information in this letter is confidential, please, if you are not
interested destroy this message, You should not retain copy or use this
letter for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of its content to
any other person.


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