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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million 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.

Fraud email example:

From: "dr everesp7" <dreveresp7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr_everes@myway.com
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:05:49 +0000
Subject: Urgent Respond,

From: Dr Everes Henry,
Address:
#123CB/PBV,MAIN CITY,
BOKSBURG SOUTH,
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
_____________________________________________________________________
(TRANSFER OF ($ 26,000.000.00 USD}
{TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS)
Attn Dear,
Warmest greetings to you.I want to solicit your attention to transfer to
overseas (26,000,000.00 USD) twenty six million United States Dollars from a
Bank in Africa. I also want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and
honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even
an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain
honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and
believing that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am Dr Everes Henry, the Auditor General of a bank in Africa, during the
course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account
again.After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that
the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating
and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing.The owner of this account is Mr. Howard Sweeney, a foreigner and a
miner.He made millions of dollars before he died misteriously .Since 1993 no
other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it. My
investigation proved to me that the account has no other beneficiary and
that Mr. Howard Sweeney until his death was the manager Sweeney Coy.(pty).
SA.

We will start the first transfer with six million dollars[$6,000,000.00]
upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account.The amount
involved is (26M USD) twenty six million United States Dollars, I want to
first transfer $6,000,000.00 [Six million United States Dollars]from this
money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't
know any foreigner.I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money cannot be approved to a local person here without a valid foreign
international passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid
international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money
is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c, Mr. Howard Sweeney was a
foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c].

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management
is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business.I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me
down.So, please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to
take . Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full
details of the account to be used for the deposit and about yourself.

With my influence and the position of the bank official, we can transfer
this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pendingmy physical arrival in your
country for sharing.I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I
hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your
account. I will use my position and influence to obtain all the legal
approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate
clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring.


Yours Faithfully,
Dr Everes Henry.

_________________________________________________________________
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