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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Chester Churchill" <dr_cchillc@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hawcroftdavidcyril@yahoo.com.au
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:02:40 +0200
Subject: Urgent Reply

Attn,

RE: TRANSFER OF US$48.223 MILLION{FORTY EIGHT MILLION TWO HUNDRED & TWENTY
THREE THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS ONLY} TO YOUR ACCOUNT. [STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL]

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business having gone
through your remarkable profile on the internet. Though, this medium
(Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because
it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this
correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as such.

At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and
trouble free to both parties.

My name is Hawcroft David Cyril, I work as the operational manager in
account management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of
the prime banks here in Sydney Australia. On a routine inspection I
discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a Balance Of US$48,223,000. 00
(Forty eight million two hundred and twenty three thousand U.S dollar).On
further discreet investigation, I also discovered that the account holder
has died long ago with his family on a fatal Auto-accident leaving no
beneficiary to the account and no other person knows about this account.

I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner
and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy
foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c
is a foreigner and from France in particular. I am certainly sure that he
has no writen or oral WILL attached to the account , no beneficiary and
nobody will come again for the claim of this money.

It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to the
account holder which I will
provide to you if you are interested, therefore I need your cooperation in
this transaction. The difference in country of origins is not a hindrance to
the success of this transaction. This money will remain useless in this
dormant account if I did not transfer the fund out to a foreign account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to
claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide
your safe bank account information for the transfer. All arrangement that
will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to
nominate is already in place.You should also provide me with your direct
phone lines for easy communication. I wish for utmost confidentiality in
handling this transaction.

At the conclussion of this transaction, your share will be 25% of the total
transfer sum, 70% for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any
expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer. The
fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first transfer
USD 20 Million to your account. I will fly over to meet you after the
successful transfer for sharing according to the agreed percentages. I will
have the remaining balance of USD28,223 Million transferred to your account
only after the successful sharing of the first transfer without any
disappointment from your side.

Have a nice day as I entrust this transfer into your hands. Let me hear from
you Urgently.

Best Regards,
Hawcroft David Cyril

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