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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.
• 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.
  • +447031872589 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +442070601137
• 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.
  • stephengreen_hsbcuk44@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "STEPHEN GREEN" <green7601@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: stephengreen_hsbcuk44@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:06:45 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION SIR


Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Stephen K. Green, Group Chairman, HSBC Bank Group.

It is my pleasure to write to you this day, following an opportunity in my
office that will be of immense benefit to both of us, I came across your
email address, through surfing the Internet, this is based on Trust and
Confidence, and you are entitled to Accept or Reject it.

This is regarding a devastating event on the crash of Alaska Airlines flight
261, Friends and families were lost in this devastated incident, especially
our foreign customer Late Mr. Morris Thompson, an Alaskan who unfortunately
lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed
on January 31st 2000, including His Wife and Only Daughter.

You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site, which I got
during my investigation: -

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of US$45M (Forty Five Million
United States Dollar) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer (Late Mr. Morris Thompson), who unfortunately lost his life in the
plane crash.

Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his Next of
Kin or close Relatives to come over and claim his money because the bank
cannot release it unless someone applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in the banking guidelines. Unfortunately I
learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with
him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind
for the claim, hence I could not find his Next of Kin or close Relatives to
come over and claim his money, I now present you as the Next of Kin or close
Relatives, to the deceased as indicated in the banking guidelines.

This sum of US$45M (Forty Five Million United States Dollar) it has been
abandoned in an escrow account with HSBC Bank Plc, and this funds is not
made known to anybody except me, and it has simply been forgotten, this
funds will be beneficial if we can work together and have this transfer it
to your account, as the legal owner of this funds,

After 7 years of dormancy any such accounts holding funds of certain
magnitudes will be re-directed to the bank treasury as unclaimed funds and
will be shared among the bank Share-Holders, after that the file will be
closed. This is what I am trying to prevent from happening. I will rather
see the whole money go directly to Charity Organization with a help of a
foreigner, If you share the same ideology as myself, please do not hesitate
to contact me.

However, it may interest you to know that we have secured from probate and
order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased surviving next-of-kin. Upon
this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next-of-kin to the deceased.

This business is an urgent task, if you are interested and you find the
capabilities to transact this business with me, please quickly call me on my
handi phone number:
+44 207 060 1137, +44 703 187 2589 or send me an urgent message on
Email: stephengreen_hsbcuk44@yahoo.co.uk

Note: I am aware of the various similar propositions mail proposal flying
about on the Internet and I must confess that I was reluctant to take up
this task, but having carried out my investigations and confirm it true, I
can confidently tell you that this is not scam.

I look forward to hearing from you, and hope we have a mutual business
partnership.

Sincerely,

Mr. Stephen K. Green
Group Chairman, HSBC Group.

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