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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)
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "million us dollars" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024064277 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • drjamescarsley@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "dr james carsley" <drjamescarsley5@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:58:10 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR TRUST

ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT,
WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION,
63 ST MARY AXE
EC3A 8LE
Tel: +44-702-406-4277
EMAIL: drjamescarsley@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Friend,

Re: Transfer of $18,000.000. (Eighteen Million US Dollars)

We want to transfer to overseas {$18,000,000] Eighteen Million United States
dollars from Westpac Banking Corporation. I would like if you will be
capable and fit to provide either an existing Bank account or to set up a
new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty account
can serve to receive this money as long as you will remain honest to me till
the end of this important business transaction.

I am Dr. JAMES CARSLEY, Managing Director of Accounts Department of Westpac
Banking Corporation.

During the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account
opened with our Bank in 2000 and since 2002 nobody has operated on this
account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered
that the owner of the account died without a heir hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
for nothing.

The owner of this account was Engr. Anthony Hamill, a national of your
country and an Industrialist. He died since 2002 and no other person knows
about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no beneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that Engr. Anthony Hamill until
his death was a Manager with an oil firm in Scotland.

I am contacting you as a foreigner because this money can only be approved
to a foreigner with a foreign account because the money is in us dollars and
the former owner of the account Engr. Anthony Hamill is a foreigner. I am
revealing all these information to you with the belief that you will never
let me down in this business. You are the first and the only person I am
contacting for the business so please reply urgently for me to tell you the
next step to take.

You should forward the following information:
Your telephone/fax numbers and your Residential address which is also
needed. You will have to give me the assurance that when we meet this money
will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing and
disbursement of the fund which will be 35% for your assistance, 60% will be
for us while 5% will be set aside to take care of all the expenses that
would be incurred by both parties during the course of the transfer.

I look forward to your earliest response through my
Alternative email address below (drjamescarsley@yahoo.co.uk) or call me
through my private telephone number +44-702-406-4277,
for security reasons.

Yours faithfully,
Dr. James Carsley.

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