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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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.
  • gabrielcarlos54@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "gabriel carlos" <gabrielcarlos54@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:11:23 +0000
Subject: An Allure Transaction For Your Collaboration

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

 

I can't imagine how you will feel receiving a sudden business letter from  a remote country in far away South Africa and probably from some one you have not closely related with. But all the same, I believe we do not need to be of blood relatives before we can establish Cordial/business relationship.

Having said this, I think it is very important at this juncture to introduce myself to you and also disclose to you, how I came in contact with your email address/profile. My name is Mr.Carlos Gabriel. I am the district (Foreign operations) manager of Societe Generale Banque Group, South Africa branch. I got your email address/profile from the Internet. It is my pleasure to solicit your assistance in a very confidential business proposal. I am contacting you because I do not want to transact the business with anybody who is known to any staff of this bank or anybody around here to avoid any possible blackmail or leakage at the end of the transaction.

THE PROPOSAL: There is an account in this bank, Societe Generale Banque

Group , which was opened in 1982 by one Mr.Marc Angers, an Australian

National, who worked with South Africa Department of Mining & Natural

Resources and since 1990 nobody has operated on this account. I had a very

careful study of the account files through which I carried an extensive

investigation about the holder of the said account and found out that Mr.

Marc Angers suddenly died in a plane crash in 1990 thereby abandoning the

account, having been fictitious regards the information he submitted to this bank at the time of opening the account.

The account at this moment has no beneficiary since the name Mr.Marc filled, as his next of kin has no contact information in the form he submitted to the bank. I have secretly removed all the relevant files to the account from the dormant section so that bank auditors will not verify the abandoned money and refer it to Federal Treasury via South Africa reserve bank'. Credit balance of the said account is US$40.25m (Forty-million, two hundred and fifty United States Dollars) My Dear Friend, the deal here is that the money in this account will be approved and remitted to any foreigner who shows up as next of kin to Mr. Marc provided such person has correct information to the account. I have such needed information and will hand it over to you as soon as we commence the transaction.

I will source all necessary documents and forward them to you for direct

submission to the bank. With my position as the foreign operations manager we will quietly remove this money from the bank without hitches. I don't have any problem in regularizing all necessary documents and transferring the credit balance of the said account to your nominated bank account in overseas, but the problem is trust. I have spent months in trying to get an overseas reliable contact. It is worthy to note that people are unreliable these days and even derive joy in telling lies.

On this ground I request your unreserved but sincere cooperation devoid of greed in carrying out this transaction so that no one amongst both of us shall defraud each other at the end. I am prepared to split at 60%---40% for you, provided that mine (60%) will be intact at the end. Please get back to me via email as a matter of urgency Awaits your cooperation.

NB: PLEASE REPLY ONLY THROUGH THESE ADDRESSES:

gabrielcarlos54@hotmail.com

Best regards,

Manager, Foreign Operations

Gabriel Carlos.

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