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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic immunity"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "keep it confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "diplomatic immunity" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +4402087509150
• 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.
  • bankinbarclays@london.com
  • mark_merson_barclaysbk2006@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • mark_merson_barclaysbk2007@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "BARCLAYS BANK LONDON ENGLAND" <mark_merson22@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:46:37 +0000
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

BARCLAYS BANK LONDON,ENGLAND
1 Churchill Place London E14 5HP England.
Bank website: www.barclays.co.uk
Email: bankinbarclays@london.com
Personal: mark_merson_barclaysbk2006@yahoo.co.uk
Direct telephone: (+44) (0) 20 8 750 9150
Bank Registered No: 1026167

From the Desk of Mark Merson, Investor Relations Department Officer

TOP OF THE DAY:

Good day Sir/Madam,

I deem it necessary to contact you through your contact email address we got
from the US Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in respect of an overdue
outstanding payment, which has been lying wasted at the Debt Reconciliation
Centre (D.R.C) before it was deposited in our Bank yesterday.

However, it is my position to inform you that our Bank have been assigned by
the Debt Reconciliation Centre (D.R.C) to approve payment to whom their
irregularities has been waved and the payment has been overdue which you
happens to fall in the short list as the bonifide next of kin.

As it may interest you to know, During my investigation and auditing in this
bank, I came across a
very huge sum of 10 Million USD belonging to a deceased person Engineer
Christian Eric who died on July 2000 in a plane crash along with his
family you can read more on this website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

And you happens to fall in the list as the Next of Kin to the deceased
person who had
died. Contract Payment Approved Fund (C.P. A.F) by the British Government.

Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the
bonafide next of kin to the
deceased has been conducted, and we will enclose the certified copies of the
documents that legalize this transaction, both the name of the deceased and
the Court approval, as soon as you indicate your interest upon this
notification.

Finally, as you can see we're in position to help you put claim over this
fund as the bonafide next of
kin to the deceased, we kindly advice you to keep it CONFIDENTIAL, while we
do everything in our
power to help you receive the said amount into bank account in Dollars,
Euros or Pound Sterlings
through Wire Transfer (W.T), Telegraphic Transfer (T.T) or Diplomatic
immunity, by which your
total fund will be packaged in a Diplomatic box and shall be delivered to
you at your doorstep.

Well, as it may interest you to know once again, we've conducted such
similar transaction before,and i will not fail to inform you that this
transaction is 100% risk free. and we can assist you if you want, and you
will be entitled to 65% of the total sum as gratification while 35% will be
for me and my partners for helping you.

In view of the above, you are hereby advice to expedite an immediate action
upon the receipt of this message by obliging me in your esteem reply with
the following informations:

1. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
2. Personal email address
3. Home/Office telephone and fax numbers
4. Home or Office mailing address
5. Private email address

I hereby humbly inform you that you have 10 days to put claim over this fund
as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, so that we can submit the
manuscript to the Debt Reconciliation Centre (D.R.C) unless you wish your
fund to be revoked by the above department.

We urge you to kindly channel all your replies on this email addresses:

(mark_merson_barclaysbk2006@yahoo.co.uk) or
(mark_merson_barclaysbk2007@yahoo.co.uk)

for security reasons.

While thanking you for your kind gesture and looking forward hearing from
you in due course being
the culmination of this excursion, I remain.

Yours in service

Mr. Mark Merson
Investor Relations Department Officer
Private email: mark_merson_barclaysbk2006@yahoo.co.uk

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