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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 deposit" (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.
  • mikebello001@terra.com.mx (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MIKE BELLO" <akinbaye26@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mikebello001@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:07:21 +0100
Subject: FROM YOUR PARTNER MIKE BELLO



Attn.

I am Mike Bello, I am the personal accountant to Engr. Don WIANWRIGHT, a foriegn National who use to work with Shell development Company in HONG KONG. Herein after shall be referred to as my client. My client, his wife and their three children were involved in a train accident in Japan during their visit to Japan.Here is some news about the train accident:


Click on the web address:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042500187.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4480031.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1980484.stm.


Since then I have made several enquires to your embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts to locate any member of his family, hence I contacted you. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposit is lodged. Prticularly, the ECO BANK PLC, where the deceased had an account valued at about 10.5 Million U.S Dollars The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next fourteen official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for 1 year now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin so that we can share the money. 35% for me and 35% for you, while 15% will be used to offset all the expenses incurred in the course of this transaction inclu!
ding tax and 15% for the poor in your country.Therefore, if you are interested to execute this deal with me, kindly forward to me your private telephone/fax numbers to enable me submit them to the bank where my late client deposited his money. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Please get in touch with me via

email: mikebello001@terra.com.mx .


I anticipate your urgent response!Best regards,

Mike Bello

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