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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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • rongeorge_2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Ron George <rongeorge_2@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: rongeorge20006@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Awaiting your response


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: rongeorge_2@yahoo.com

Awaiting your response

- Dear Friend, I am Mr Ron George, (Senior Manager Commercial Banking) with Chartered Bank Limited. I contacted you based on a mutual business transaction that I would want us to handle in confidence and I hope you can understand the need for us to do this and for you to STAND IN for a client who is a Foreign Expert with an oil company here. Mr. McEdward Robertson, who died from a brief illness while in the country, on the 24th of August 2004. He was about sixty three (63) years old and had no wife and children. He was never identified with any relative, and investigation made could not trace anybody to the late man. He left behind the sum of seventeen million eight hundred thousand dollars(17,800,000.00 UD Dollars). Money he made from contracts he executed with Oil Companies back here and the said amount is saved with my branch of the Bank. Weeks ago, the Bank requested that the next of kin to the deceased should come up to claim his fund deposited with the Bank. I am in this department, which explains my
contacting you to stand in as the next of Kin, after efforts made to locte his relations failed. I hereby applea to you to stand in as the next of kin to the deseased, so that the bank will not declare the account dormant and in turn freeze or confiscate the amount to Bank money;as that is the condition in our Banking system. If you can stand in, I assure you that it is RISK free as I will advise you on what to do, in order to have this fund moved to your account and we can now share the said amount at 60 for me and 40 for you. All I want you to do is to stand in as the next of kin to the account. It has to be confidential please. As soon as you apply and meet up with all the bank requirement, the Bank will transferred the money to an account that will be provided by you. you to do is to stand in as the next of kin to the account. It has to be confidential please. As soon asyou apply and meet up with all the bank requirement, the Bank will transferred the money to an account that will be provided by you. I
look forward to your reply.Thank you, Mr, Ron Georgel

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