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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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: benards_018@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:33:12 +0200
Subject: RE:INVITATION FOR PARTNERSHIP

From: Mr. Benard Smith
Tel: 0027 73 27631 92
Amalgamated Bank of South Africa(ABSA)


Dear Sir,

I know that this e-mail will come to you as a surprise since we don’t know each other before now but permit me to use this medium to contact you. For the purpose of introduction, I am Mr. Benard Smith the Manager of a branch of Amalgamated Bank of South Africa (ABSA)

There is an account opened in this bank in 1989 and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account. Again after going through some 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 was Mr. Edwin Strydom, a foreigner and a miner at RAND GOLD COMPANY PTY LTD SOUTH AFRICA. He was a miner and businessman and he died since 1998. No other person knows about this account or any thing about it. The account has no other beneficiary/next of kin and my investigation proved to me as much. The amount involved is Eight Million United States Dollar (US$8million).

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved for transfer to a local bank here, but can only be approved for transfer to any foreign account because the money is in US Dollar and the former owner of the account Mr. Edwin Strydom was a foreigner too. I want seal this business with you. Your role will be to provide an overseas account where this money will be transfer and to act as the next of kin to the former owner of this account.

I want us to meet face to face or sign a binding agreement to guild us together so that you can receive this money into your account in any part of the world where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for withdrawal and sharing and other investments. I am involving you in this transaction because of the above reasons. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this remittance to any foreigner, who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you later.

Please, your urgent positive reply will be appreciated so that I will inform you the next step to take immediately. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full detail of the account to be used for the transfer. And more importantly, I pray you to maintain the confidentiality that this business requires.


Best regarsd,

Mr. Benard Smith.

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