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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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 business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • 7donnewport@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "standardbanklon@terra.es" <standardbanklon@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:39:34 +0100 (MET)
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!



Dear:Sir/Madam

My name is Don Newport and I work with the mining finance debt. Of
Standard Bank of London http://www.sbl.co.uk/MiningMetals/Contacts.aspx

I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer Mr Mikel Burke regarding an
investment he placed under our bank management some years ago. I would
respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and
respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of
this mail.

We are contacting you independently of our investigations and no one is
informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you with
certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you. We had a foreign
customer who deposited a huge sum of money with our bank, who was later
declared dead of a heart attack in Cannes, South of France.

Before his death, Mr Mikel Burke had with our bank the sum of US$21.5M (TWENTY-ONE
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED SATES DOLLARS). Immediately after his death our bank immediately
launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert
about the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate/funds.
If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize
our services usually prefer anonymity,
but also some levels of detachment from conventional processes.

In his bio-data form, he listed no next of kin. In the field of private
banking, opening an account with us means no one will know of its
existence, accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors use numbers and
codes to make the accounts anonymous. This bank also gives the choice
for depositors of having their mail sent to them or held at the bank
itself, ensuring that there are no traces of the account and as I said,
rarely do they nominate next of kin. Private banking clients apart from
not nominating next of kin also usually in most cases leave wills in our
care, in this case; the deceased died without a testate.
In line with our internal processes for account holders who have
passed away, we instituted our own investigations in good faith to determine
who should have right to claim the estate. This investigation hasfor
the past months been unfruitful.

On this note, I and some officials who prefer not to be mentioned would
want you to apply to this bank as the next of kin.
We agreed that 40% of the money will be for you as a foreign partner,
while the rest will be for me and my partners here in the bank.
We will want you to know that this business is hitch free and that you
should not welcome any fear as the whole required arrangement has been
made including all the entire legal documents.

I will advise you to please contact me on this email:
(7donnewport@myway.com) as soon as you get this email for further
informations.

PLEASE DO NOT CALL MY OFFICE NUMBER.

As soon as I get your response I will forward you my contact telephone
number for easy communication.
Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a wife and children. I
send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and
that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is
the one truth I have learnt
from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence.

If we can be of one accord, I assure you that you that everything will
be fine.

I await your prompt response.

Regards,

MR. Don Newport
Reply me: 7donnewport@myway.com












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