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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
• 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.
  • johnlewis083@88.am (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "John Lewis" <johnlewis080@greatermobile.com>
Reply-To: <johnlewis0801@jmail.co.za>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:36:46 -0600
Subject: FROM : MR.JOHN LEWIS MY SINCERE REQUEST PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE REPLY

FROM : MR.JOHN LEWIS MY SINCERE REQUEST PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE REPLY



MR.JOHN LEWIS,BRANCH MANAGER
BUTTERFIELD BANK CAYMAN LIMITED
BUTTERFIELD HOUSE,68 FORT STREET
GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS

PLEASE SEND ALL YOUR REPLY TO MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL: johnlewis083@88.am

Dear Sir/Madam ,

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone through your remarkable profile on the internet.Though, this medium (Internet)has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest, surest and most ecured medium of communication .However,thiscorrespondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as such. I also guarantee you that this deal is hitch free from all what you may think of.I am MR.JOHN LEWIS, Branch
Manager(West Shore Branch) BUTTERFIELD BANK CAYMAN LIMITED.

I am contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that will be attached to this deal. The Management and the Legal department of our BANK (BUTTERFIELD BANK CAYMAN LIMITED) in a recent meeting, Recommended that the account of MS.ANGELA SUSAN SCHEINBERG, who was one of my branch
depositor, should be declared Dormant,confisticated and the depositor's fund sent to the Bank
Treasury according to cayman island Banking and financial law. he died in world trade centre as a victims of the september 11,2001.Incident that befall the united state of america,the bank is still unrelenting in it's bid to contact any of the relatives to claim This money, you can
confirm through this

http://www.september11victims.com/september11Victims/victims_list.htm

She is an account holder in my branch, She owns a dollar account with the sum of US$38.6M (Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) deposited in a numbered account with the account. In fact it happened that since her death, the next of kin of the dollar account holder(the brother) or whom ever that is related to her has not show up for the claim. This is where I am interested on and his is where I want you to come in. I want you to come in as the relation of
the deceased, I will give you the contact of the attorney, you will have to write to him Telling him you are a relation to the deceased and that you have found out that MS.ANGELA SUSAN SCHEINBERG has account with BUTTERFIELD BANK CAYMAN LIMITED. which you wants to lay claims through his legal authority.He is going to be happy to assis! t you.I will be the one to provide the vital documents for the claims of the money and then advise you exactly how we should handle it.

Please include your telephone/fax number/ Home Address when replying this mail and I will give you more information as soon as you indicate your willingness to assist in this transaction. We will use our positions to get all internal documentations to back up the claims .The whole Procedures will last only 7 working days to get the fund retrieved successfully Without trace even in future. Please need the following:

1.YOUR FULL NAME

2.PHONE AND FAX NUMBER

3.HOME ADDRESS

4.COMAPNY NAME AND ADDRESS.

After successful conclussion of this transaction, we shall share the money 60-40.

Yours truly,
MR.JOHN LEWIS
johnlewis083@88.am

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