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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +447031837551 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704712317 (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.
  • willy_young@unionplus.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: willy_young@unionplus.net
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:58:27 -0800
Subject: WE CAN WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR MUTUAL BENEFIT


Mr. William Young
Vice President, Custody and Clearing
HAMILTON DIRECT BANK PLC
8 CANAD SOUARE, LEVEL 24
LONDON E14 5HQ
Direct Line: +44 703 183 7551 (Private)
Direct Fax: +44 870 471 2317 (Private)
Email: willy_young@unionplus.net
Dear Partner,

Through some discreet search from my local chambers of commerce, you and
your organization were revealed as being quite astute in
Entrepreneurship.
One has no doubt in your ability to handle an international business of
considerable TRUST, which may form the bedrock of an extensive business
partnership in the future.

PROPOSITION:

Presently in my bank here in the United Kingdom we have a deposit to the
tune of $32,000, 000.00,
which has remained unclaimed since 1999. And the fund will be converted
to
UNCLAIMED DEPOSIT and therefore forfeited if nobody comes forward to lay
claim to the deposit before the end of this financial quarter, as is the
practice and also indicated in the EU banking guidelines.

It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate
registry
of the Supreme Court an order of mandamus to locate and transfer the
rights
and privileges of the fund to any of the account's beneficiaries. This
is
why I am contacting you.

We now seek your understanding to have you stand as the
Beneficiary/Next of Kin to the deceased who died in the July 7 London
train bombing. Do not be bothered as we will
carefully and legally work out all necessary documents in your favor as
the
new Beneficiary/Next-of-Kin to this fund.

I want to count on you as a person of respect and honest disposition and
hope that you will handle this transaction with all maturity and
confidentiality it deserves.

In order to get the process started, I would require that you contact me
immediately by private email address:

Email: willy_young@unionplus.net

or Telephone/Fax numbers as given above with all necessary contact
information of yourself.

I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not
disappoint
me.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. William Young

NOTE: If however, you are not disposed to assist, kindly delete/destroy
this
email in view of the confidentiality of the proposed transaction and
interest of personalities involved.

Anti-fraud resources:

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