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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "david moore" <mooredavid101@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dav_moo2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:54:55 +0000
Subject: urgent asisstant.

MR. MOORE DAVID
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: 27-73-740-0852
FAX: 27- 83-624-2709

ATT: PRESIDENT/CEO

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

I am Mr. Moore David, the chief executive of NED BANK, my partner and me has
decided to contact you because there is an account opened in this bank in
1999 and since 2001 and nobody has operated on this account again. After
going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not
remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner
of this account is Mr Smith B. Andrew, a foreigner, and a miner at Charge
Gold Company, a geologist by profession and died since 2000. No other person
knows this account or anything concerning it, the account has no beneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that the company does not know
anything about this account and the money in this account is USD
28,000,000.00 (Twenty-Eight Million United States Dollars).

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local bank here but can only be approved to any foreign
account because the money is in United State Dollars and the former owner
Mr. Smith B. Andrew a foreigner too. I know that this message will come to
you as a surprise as we don’t know ourselves before, but be sure that it is
real and genuine business. I only got your contact from internal affairs
department with believe in God that you will never let me down in this
business, considering my position as a public servant. You are the only
person that I have contacted in this business, so please reply me urgently
so that I will inform you on the next step to take immediately. Send also
your private telephone and fax number including the full details of your
account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face to face to sign a
binding agreement to bind us together. And I will fly to your country for
withdrawal and sharing and other investment.

Meanwhile, I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner
with a foreign account and foreign beneficiary. I need your full
co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to
approve this payment to any foreigner who has the correct information of
this account, which I will give you soon as you indicate your sincerity to
co-operate with me, and capability to handle such amount in strict
confidence and trust according to my instruction and Advice for our mutual
benefit because this opportunity may never come again in my life. I need
your strong assurance and trust that you will not let me down and With my
position in the office I don’t want anything that will Jeopardise my job so
I advice that we should make secrecy and confidentiality our primary working
condition, bearing in mind that I am a public servant I will also use my
position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this
of this money into your account with appropriate clearance form of the
ministries and foreign exchange department. At the Conclusion of this
business, you will be given 20% of the total amount, 75% will be for my
partner and me 5% will be for expenses, I look forward to your earliest
reply.

Yours Sincerely


Mr. Moore David

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