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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:
  • "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)
• 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.
  • jam_mk2007@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ENGR \.JAMES MMELU KANU" <mailemekalu01@terra.com.mx>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:12:14 -0600
Subject: ATTN: BELOVED


URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
ATTN:
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. I thought of doing business with you after going through your company profile. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to seek your permission as we have been reliably informed of your discreetness and ability in transaction.
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am ENGR. JAMES MMELU KANU, Managing Director of GLOBAL CONSULTING INTERNATIONAL LIMITED; a business partner with MR. CHAN YUET TUNG. I came to know of you in my private search for reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence for both parties.
THE PROPOSAL
A foreigner late Mr. Chan Yuet Tung British overseas Passport No. 611852442, Certificate No. BPB04USD056022 was an oil merchant /contractor with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He died seven months ago as a result of lung cancer disease. He was a customer with Barclay’s Private Bank ltd London wix 9D4 Uk and had a deposit balance of USD89,000,000.00 (Eighty Nine Million Dollars) deposited on 5th January 2004 with a maturity date of September 5th 2006. The bank now expects a
next of kin as a beneficiary. Valuable efforts are being made by the Barclays’ Bank and I myself to get in touch with any of the Tung family or relatives but to no avail.
It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of the late Tung family or next of kin (he had no known wife nor children that known to us or the Bank). I and my colleagues, arrangement has been made for the funds to be declared ‘UNCLAIMABLE’ and subsequently be donated to the trust fund.
In order to advert this negative development, my trusted colleague and I now seek your permission to have your stand as a next –of kin to late Tung family, so that the fund will be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary next-of-kin. All documents and proof related to this fund will be carefully worked out in your name as the beneficiary, we have secured from the PROBATE in order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries and more so we are assuring you of 100% risk free involvement. Your share stands while the rest will be for myself and my colleagues for investment purpose in your country.
We have agreed that the fund will be shared thus, after it has been transferred into your account. 35% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the fund. 20% will be set aside for the reimbursement to both parties for my expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transfer of the fund through the attorney. 45% for the originator of the transaction.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed on you. Then, kindly get in touch with me immediately through my telephone or fax and also furnish me with your most confidential telephone and fax line with the detail of your account particulars to enable us forward it to the attorney to prepare a claim in your favour to enable Barclays’ Bank countersign & credit the fund in your account as the beneficiary next of kin. Other relative information would be discussed via the telephone.
Please, note that the copy of proof of fund will be sent to you on receipt of your acceptance.
On receipt of this message, you can reach me on E-mail : jam_mk2007@yahoo.com
Thanks in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
ENGR .JAMES MMELU KANU

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