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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • jjudge1@indiatimes.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: John Judge <johnjudge@cfaith.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:06:53 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: FROM JOHN JUDGE



Good Day,

I am Mr.John judge,a staff of ADAM &amp; COMPANY I am
contacting you independently of my investigation and no one is
informed of this communication. I would like to
intimate you with certain facts that I believe would
be of interest to you.I Would respectfully request
that you keep the contents of this mail confidential
and respect the integrity of the information you come
by as a result of this mail.please
view:http://www.adambank.com/ac_enqu.htm

THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSITION / TRANSACTION:

A foreigner by name Engr.Lungi , who is a marine
engineer by profession, until his death some times
ago, does his banking transaction with us at ADAM AND
COMPANY, and had a closing balance as at the end of
January 2003, which is worth 6,000,000 pounds (Six
million British pound sterling). I was his personal
account officer and since he deposited this money with
us in the year 2002, a single paying or withdrawal was
never made by him. We where instructed by my late
client that the money be kept and secured in a
security and finance firm because it was less
expensive to keep and secure the funds in the security
firm. This was done for him according to his
instructions, i deposited the money in the security
firm myself.

Surprisingly, for three years since this money was
kept in the security and finance firm nothing has
being heard from him, not until I was informed about
his death with evidence when I decided to call to the
number he once gave to me, of which several attempts
has been made earlier but all was in vain. The
security company expected his Next of Kin to come
forward as a sole beneficiary to his assets with the
bank. As his personal account officer valuable efforts
has being made by me for more than two years to get in
touch with any of my late client family or relatives
without any success.

It is because of the perceived impossibility of being
able to locate any of my late client Next of Kin (He
had no wife, Children or Relative that is known to me
).Based on this, I secretly seek advice from a fellow
colleague who has being in banking for about 14 years
now about this issue of my late client , he made me
understand that things like this do happen and at the
end of the day the chairman and board of directors of
the security company will declare the funds as
''Unclaimed'' and subsequently divert it for thier
personal use. In order to avert this negative
development,I now seek your permission to have you
stand as the Next of Kin to my late client, so that
the funds will be released and paid into your account
as the beneficiary's Next of Kin.

I only know of the detail about the money in the
security company, i personally deposited the money
into the security company as instructed by my late
client.

I do not want you contacting me through my official
phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my
official email account. Contact me only through the
numbers I will provide for you and also through this
email address. I do not want any direct link between
you and myself. My official lines are not secured
lines as they are periodically monitored to access our
level of customer care in line with our Total Quality
Management Policy.Please observe this instruction
religiously.

As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of your
acceptance, I will furnish you with the necessary
modalities of the transaction. I assure you that this
transcaction is 100% risk free, When this business is
completed and the funds is already in your account,the
money will be shared on a 50-50 basis.


Kindly send your response to my private email:
jjudge1@indiatimes.com

I await your response.

Regards
John Judge

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