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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:
  • "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)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • royculley72@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Roy William Culley <roywilliam_culley02@web.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:54:06 +0200
Subject: Very Important.




Mr. Roy W. Culley,
Valiant Privatbank AG,
Post Fach 3001 Bern,
Switzerland.
Tel: +41435000681
Fax: +41435000682

I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of money from
A deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
Will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
All will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due
to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION.
We discovered an abandoned sum of (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
Customers whose name is Mr. Andreas Schranner a German citizen who died
in a plane crash. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations
Has come forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot
Release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as
The next-of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, we 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 us for the funds (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand United
State Dollars) to be released in your favour as the beneficiaries next
of kin. It may interest you to know that we have secured from the
Probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries.
And for your perusal you may view this website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm]

This deposit was for 5 years and upon maturity I made effort to contact
My client, l could not reach him. I was forced to travel to Germany and
There I got the tragic news that, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his
Wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich, his son in law Christian, and
Their children Maximilian and Katharina, all perished on the Monday, 31st
July 2000 plane crash in western German city of Moenchengladbach.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message to royculley72@aim.com [mailto:royculley72@aim.com]
Or call the above number in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour
By furnishing me with the following:
1.Beneficiary Name and Address
2.Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the appropriate
Departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer
Can be made. We shall be compensating you with a million dollars on final
Conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us for investment
Purposes, if this proposal is acceptable to you, do not take undue advantage
Of the trust we have bestowed in you. I await your urgent response.

Regards,

Mr. Roy W. Culley




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