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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • tomdbridge1@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tom D. Bridge" <tomdbridge1@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:02:41 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION

Mr.Tom Denis Bridge.
Gulf Atlantic & Wales Assisted Bank.
London UK.
Email Address:tomdbridge1@hotmail.com

Dear Friend.

My name is Mr.Tom Denis Bridge, I am the credit manager of Gulf Atlantic &
Wales Assisted Bank.London-UK, here in the United Kingdom. I am contacting
you of a 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 everything has been
taken care off, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

I am the account officer of a foreigner named Joyce Lake and her husband
Ronald Lake who died in an air crash along with his wife on the January 31
in an Alaska airline Flight 261 with other passengers on board.

You can confirm this from the website below which was published by
CNN.WEBSITE.http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin is alive to make claims for this
money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and
his wife (May their soul rest in peace). 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, I 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 me for the funds (US$18,500,000,00) to be released in your favors as the
beneficiary's next of kin. Because after five years the money will be called
back to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst
the directors of the bank. So it is on this note i decided to seek for whom
his name shall be used as the next of kin/ beneficiary to this funds rather
than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst themselves at the
end of the year.

It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order
of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge
receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by
furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.

1.A Beneficiary name and personal banking details. In order for me to
prepare the document for transfer of the funds in your name.

2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers. For our personal contact and mutual
trust in each other.

I shall be compensating you with 30% which is Five million five hundred
fifty thousand dollars ($5,550,000,00) on final conclusion of this project
for your assistance, while the balance $12,950,000 dollars shall be for me
for investment purposes. Because I intend to retire after the conclusion of
this transaction. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to
contact me immediately.

Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you.

Here is my alternative email address:tomdbridge1@hotmail.com

I await your urgent response.

Regards.

Mr.Tom Denis Bridge,
Gulf Atlantic & Wales Assisted Bank.
London UK.

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