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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • mikesmithbill_06@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mike smith" <mike_smithbill11@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mikesmithbill_06@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:51:31 +0200
Subject: greeting

FROM: MR. MIKE BILL
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF IRELAND
NO:6 O'CONNEL STREET
DUBLIN 1 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

REQUESTING
With great pleasure I am writing this proposal on behalf of my
partners.I got your information through my personal search on the internet.
Hence I have decided to seek your cooperation,due to the sensitivity of
this transaction and my commitment as a civil servant. I am Mr. Mike
Bill the manager Bills and Exchange under foreign remittance department of
Bank Of Ireland Dublin Republic Of Ireland There is an account opened
in this Bank in 1990 and since 2000 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 DR. Abu Hebru ( Nasim Saleh), a
foreigner, Geologist by profession and he died since 1999. In an air
crash along with his wife Mrs. Zainab Hebru on 31st October 1999 in an
Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board.

No other person know about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved To me as
well that his company does not know anything about his account and the
amount involved is (US$ 12.7)Twelve Million seven Hundred Thousand
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 US Dollars and the
former owner of the account is DR. Abu Hebru is a foreigner too.
Our constraint is to be able to source an honest and trustworthy
individual,to whom we can remit these funds and act as trustee pending
our visit, since our period of disengagement from the civil service is
near.

We are presently affected by the Republic Of Ireland civil service code
of conduct laws that prohibits civil servants from operating private
foreign accounts.You will be given 20% of the total sum,while 70% will be
for me and 10% for taxes and other miscellaneous expenses. This
transaction is 100% risk free provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality.

Furthermore, your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the
successful execution of this via my personal e-mail address At
mikesmithbill_06@yahoo.com Thank you and God Bless,

My sincere Regards


Mr. MIKE BILL


GOOD DAY

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