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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:
  • "from the desk of" (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.
  • jonmortell2002@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "horay_28@terra.es" <horay_28@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:50:28 +0100 (MET)
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL



>From The Desk Of Jon Mortell Senior
Staff In File Department Finance Manager, lloyds Bank tsb Lloyds TSB
Bank PLC, 78 Tottenham Court Road, London.
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html


Compliments Of The Season,

I am Jon Mortell a senior staff in file department;lloyds tsb london
United kingdom. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 1.5
million pounds . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family on (Friday December
26th,2003 ) in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have
been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because
we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my
department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
dont want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

If you are interested, contact me for more clearification:

Jon Mortell
Email address:jonmortell2002@yahoo.co.uk

Yours faithfully,
Jon Mortell






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