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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:
  • "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.
• 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.
  • zhangwu2@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: zhang wu <zhang@zhang2.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:52:06 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CAN WE WORK TOGETHER? MR WU REQUEST!


CAN WE WORK TOGETHER? MR WU REQUEST!


Good Day,
Although, I do
not
know you in person, I have received
your contact via
personal
search on
the internet, Let me start by
introducing myself. I
am Mr.
Zhang Wu a
banker in the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,
Hong Kong.
I have a
profitable
transaction for you.
I was attending a business luncheon in
September
1999
in china and I
got introduced to Mr. Andreas
Schranner, a
renowned
German real
Estate/property magnate. He later
employed my
services
as a banker and investment
Consultant, Three
months later he
invited me and told
me of his
desire to open a fixed
deposit account,
he could fail
back to on
retirement, under my
professional guidance
and based
on my advice he
made a fixed deposit
of USD25,000,000(twenty
five
million United States
Dollars) in one of
our branches.
This
deposit was for 5 years and upon maturity I made
effort to contact
my
client, l could not reach him. I was forced to
travel to Germany
and
there I got the tragic news that, my client Mr.
Andreas Schranner,
his
wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich,
his
son in law Christian, and
their children
Maximilian and Katharina,
all perished in the Monday,
31 July, 2000 plane crash
in western
German
city of Moenchengladbach.
Please Click here and find out what
happened to the
Mr. Andreas
Schranner :
http://news.bbc.co.
uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
After
further investigation, l also
discovered that
Mr. Andreas Schranner
did not declare any next of kin
in his official papers including the
paper work of his
bank deposit.
And l remember he also confided in me
the last time
he was at my
office that no one except me knew of his
deposit in my
bank. So,
Twenty five million United State dollars is
still lying
in my bank and
no one will ever come forward to claim
it.
What bothers
me most? Is
that according to the laws
of my country at
the expiration of a
numbers of years
the funds will
revert to the
ownership of the Hong
Kong Government if
nobody applies to claim the
funds. Against this
backdrop, my suggestion
to you is that I will like
you
as a foreigner
to stand as the next of kin to Mr.
Andreas Schranner
so
that you will
be able to receive his
funds.
Should you be
interested please send me
your full
names and current
residential
address and I will
prefers
you to reach me on the email address below
( zhangwu2@netscape.net)
and finally after that I
shall provide you
with more details of this
operation.
Your earliest response to this
letter will be
appreciated.
Mr. Zhang Wu
Shanghai Branch
G/F, China
Development Bank Tower
500
Pudong South Road
Pudong, Shanghai
Shanghai
Postal Code: 200120
http:
//www.hangseng.com/

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