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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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 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.
  • parker_ray1@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "11parker" <parker_ray1@myway.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:47:10 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Penpal reply (Interpals)



Hi rosientje. 11parker has replied to your InterPals listing!

You may view this user's profile at:
http://www.interpals.net/profile.php?u=harry12
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Dear Friend,
My name is Harry Parker, I am a senior banker in a bank here in the
Europe.I am contacting you for a business transfer, of a huge
sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction
of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that everything documents that will bring about the success
of this transaction would be provided, and all will be well at the end
of the day.
I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,
the deceased person Neal Walker died in an air crash along
with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with
other passengers on board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with
the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his death from
the website below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS.
WEBSITE:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for
this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident
himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release
the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully
worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds #16,100 000 00 GBP (sixteen
million, one hundred thousand Great British pounds sterling) which
will be released in your favor as the next of kin. Because after seven
years the money will be called back to the bank bond treasury as
unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank.
so it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used
as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank
directors to share this money amongst themselves at the end of the
year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an
order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please
acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavor for our personal contact and mutual trust in each other.
I shall be compensating you with 35% of the above amount on final
conclusion of this project for your assistance, the balance 65% shall
be for me , because I intend to retire after the conclusion of this
transaction . If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to
contact me immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have
bestowed in you, I await your urgent reply to this proposal.
Best Regards,
Mr.Harry Parker
N:B If really you want to help reply me through my private account (
parker_ray1@myway.com )


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Please note that by replying to this message your own email address
will be revealed.

InterPals is not responsible for the contents of this message.
If there is a problem, please include the following information
on the sender in any correspondence with InterPals:
Name (as entered): 11parker
Email (as entered): parker_ray1@myway.com
IP and Host address: 196.3.63.252/dial-pool2.lagos.starcomms.com

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