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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:
  • "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)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • vmorris01@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: correspondence2010@lycos.com
Reply-To: vmorris01@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:30:14 -0500
Subject: Reply

Citizens Bank United Kingdom
PRIVATE AND URGENT.


I am contacting you on 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 all will
be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the urgency of
this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

We discovered an abandoned sum of GB£14,500,000.00 (fourteen million
five hundred thousand Pound Sterling) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers Mr. Aloysius William Han who died on the January
31 2000.

CNN.WEBSITE.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward
to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot release the funds
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,
we now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to the deceased
as all documentation will be carefully worked out by us for the funds
(?14,500,000.00) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's
next-of-kin.

It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an
order of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavour by furnishing me with the following:

1. Name and address (to be used as the Beneficiary)
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers (to contact you)

you can send this information to: vmorris01@yahoo.com.hk

These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before
the transfer
can be made. We shall be compensating you with ?2,000,000.00 (two
million Pounds Sterling) on final conclusion of this project, while THE REST
shall be for us for investment purposes. If this proposal is acceptable by
you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed on you.

I await your urgent response.
Regards,
Mr. Victor Morris.
Citizens Bank United Kingdom

Reply via my private email: vmorris01@yahoo.com.hk

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