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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)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found 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.
  • +31630247151 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • inforudolf@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: rudolf@rudolf2.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:00:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Ref.Dr.Rudolf ( BusinessProposal )


Ref.Dr.Rudolf ( BusinessProposal )
Dear Friend,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into financial transaction for our mutual benefits. I am Dr. Steinhauser Jan Rudolf, the personal assistance to Prof. Rijkman Groenink, Chairman, Abn Amro Bank N.V, Netherlands. The fact is that we just got to know that one of our foreign customer DR. ALHAJI. ASHARY IBRAHIM ABDULHAMEED from Saudi Arabia who made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$16,800,000.00 (Sixteen Million and Eighty Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) only in our bank. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Petroleum and Mineral Resources Saudi Arabia that DR. ALHAJI. ASHARY IBRAHIM ABDULHAMEED died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation and discovered that DR. ALHAJI. ASHARY IBRAHIM ABDULHAMEED did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$45.8 Million is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each month. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of this Bank, at the expiration of 5(Five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Netherlands Government if nobody applies to claim the Fund.
Consequently,
My proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to DR. ALHAJI. ASHARY IBRAHIM ABDULHAMEED so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupts Government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide me immediately your full names, Telephone and Fax numbers and address so that my attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in Place as the next of kin. We shall discuss the percentage of sharing in your response.

The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a citizen here cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I therefore solicit for your assistance to come forward as the next of kin in this business. So if you are interested I advice you to write me your plan and send me your detains through my private email below in order for me to send you the whole arrangement about this transaction. Hope to get your understanding, trust and capability of handling this transaction.
Thanks for your understanding.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Steinhauser Jan Rudolf
My Private Telephone No: +31-630-247-151
For Prof. Rijkman Groenink
Chairman (ABN AMRO BANK N.V)
P.O. Box 283 (AA2823)
1000 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
www.abnamrobank.nl
Email:inforudolf@aim.com

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