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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • henry_macfib@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: HENRY MACPEPPLE <henry_macfib@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:40:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: More Details Reply For us to Procceed!


Hello my good friend ,

Thanks for your mail, your mail contents was well noted and understood.I will give you every proof you require as I open up every detail about this transaction to you. Well, my friend, for this transaction to work out, we require absolute co-operation, loyalty, confidence, trust, and seriousness on your side and I do not hope to make a mess of this once in life time opportunity.

I urge you to follow up with the transaction relentlessly to enable us actualise it soon. The deceased is a foreigner and was a customer in my bank, but unfortunately the man and the entire family lost their life's in an air-crash,left with no body to claim his balance and some fraction left in the bank before the death. As a bank officer in the bank ,I was mandated with some other officials in the bank to look for the relative of the (Deceased).

I decided to contact you as a foreigner to stand as the Next Of Kin to Late Burke Sean so that the money will be remitted into your account as the rightful beneficiary , at the end, both of us will share the funds, as you mentioned in your mail to me. Before contacting you I made sure the funds exist ,
i will like you to send me the below informations to enable me facilitate an application on your name as the bonofide beneficiary of the fund to enable the bank procceed in transfering the($15.5million) inheritance fund to your account.

1 .Your full three name
2. Your contact Address.
3.your contact telephone

I will let you know that next step as soon as the bank authenticate the application.
Please all mails meant for me should be sent to me through my confidencial Email address as follows (henry_macfib@yahoo.com )
I anticipate an urgent response from you.

Your friend and partner,

Mr henry macpepple.





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