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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 u.s 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)
  • "my direct telephone number" (i.e. "call me on my cellphone at the Internet cafe where we scammers hang out")
• 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.
  • +447011150600 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • gerald.perez201@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Gerald Perez" <gerald.perez2210@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: gerald.perez203@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:38:37 -0500
Subject: CAN YOU BE TRUSTED FRIEND? IF YES LET'S DO THIS!

Hello Dear,
 
 
    Please read  this message and get back to me urgent Please, am serious about this. May this mail  find you in Good condition.
 
It Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into relationship with you. I have the believe you are a reputable, responsible and trustworthy person I can relay on you as a partner and by matter of trust I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere transaction.
 
My name is Mr Gerald, I am 33 years old and I am single, from Uk, am a banker here in United Kingom, I need a very good relationship with you and open minded so that we can work together as one family and have this golden furtune that comes my way. 
  
My plans was that as soon as this transaction get through, I will resign from my work and come over to stay in your country and invest.
 
Your statue is good enough, due to the country you come from and I have the belive that if we can understand our selves, we will achive something good from this project. My communicating with you was very please to me and I don't want to wait due to the urgency this transaction needs.
 
In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of $ 9.5m US dollars ( Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars ). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer, who died along with his entire family in a plane crash in the year 2001 that almost took the life of all the pasengeres that were on board. Since we got this information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot apply for it as the next of kin, associate or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims.
 
It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this transaction proposal to you, so that the fund will be release to you as the next of kin. Since nobody is coming for the claiming of this fund and I don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. Pls, this is an oppotunity for you and me.
 
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such funds remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin or associate in this transcation is needed, occasioned by the fact that the customer is from your same area, and I i work in this bank, I cannot stand as his next of kin or associate. Please my dear, If you are capable to handle this project with me, contact me urgently as soon as you recieve this message so that I will go into details and tell you what you have to do.
 
Here is my direct telephone number, you can reach me for more details : +447011150600 , It is important that you call/email me via my private email address (gerald.perez201@yahoo.co.uk) as soon as you receive this mail. Thanks for being brilliant and i know you understand clearly how rich we would be when we get this funds in our hands.

 

I am not doing this out of greediness or selfishness, but for the love i have for my sister and all other patient in the hospital where she is about to undergo a surgical operation, because she had kidney failure. All my percentage on this deal is going into that source, please do weel to get back to me as we are about to change our lives and the lives of our loved ones around for the better.
 
I am waiting to hear from you as soon as possible on my private email gerald.perez201@yahoo.co.uk thanks
 
Mr Gerald Perez
THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING

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