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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • ming_yaoo2@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Ming Yao <mingyaoo2@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <ming_yaoo2@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:16:46 +0000
Subject: For Your Kind Of Your Attention????



DAH SING BANK LTD.
19 DES VOEUX RD. CENTRAL HONG KONG,
HONK KONG.
Private Mail box: ming_yaoo2@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Sir / Madam

Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I
believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact
that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on
your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar
with events.

I am Mr. Fred Ming Yao. Senior credit officer of the Dah Sing Bank
Ltd.I have a concealed business proposal for you. After the United
State and Iraqi war, our client Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah who was the deputy governor of Baghdad in Iraq and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 12 calendar months, with a value of (US$14M)Fourteen Millions United State Dollars only, in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even after the war late this year, again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. I later find out that the Governor has been assassinated in Baghdad.

The websites below is a verification of the news about his death:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3970619.stm
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=6979


After my further investigation it was also discovered that Hatem
Kamil Abdul Fatah did not declare any Next of Kin in his official
papers including the paper work of his Bank Deposit. And he also
confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank.

Meanwhile, With my investigation and the verification i have made, It was to understand that no staff of the Bank knows that Mr.Hatem KamilAbdul Fatah has no Next Of Kin to Claim the Fund and no one will overcome forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country Banking Sector, at the expiration three years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

However, I am contacting you as a Foreigner to Present you to my Bank, as the Next of Kin to Mr.Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah for the Claim of his Fund. To Facilitate, I want you to know that I have perfected all arrangement to Transfer this Fund out of my Bank and every modalities have been worked out for a successful Transfer. I have possession to the Fund but as i Civil Servant i cannot Operate a Foreign Account and i Needed a foreigner to Present to Receive the Fund as a Next of Kin to Mr.Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, that is why, I need your assistance. Be assured that every Legal Documents, to Back you up for the Claim will be provided for a successful Claim.

Please endeavor to observe utmost Confidential in all matters
concerning this DEAL(Transaction).Mode of sharing in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you. If you are Interest, please send me your full particulars in my private mail box at: ming_yaoo2@yahoo.co.uk including your private phone for easy communication and I will provide you with more details of this transaction, as well as my particulars. Note, This Transaction is absolutely Risk Free, as long as absolute confidential is maintained. Note, I am still in active service, as a Staff of Dah Sing Bank Ltd.

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Fred Ming Yaoo.

For: DAH SING BANK LTD.


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