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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:
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024024864 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • hulda59@mail.az (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "andy uk" <infanu33@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hulda59@excite.com
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:20:33 +0200
Subject: From: Auditor Hulda !!!

From Mr. Andy Hulda
Address: 8 Mitchley Road London N17 9HG
Occupations: Auditor.

Greetings. I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business.

Though,I choose to reach you through Internet because it still remains the
fastest medium of communication. However, this correspondence is unofficial
and private,and it should be treated as such .I am Mr. Andy Hulda, a United
Kingdom Government Auditor and I work in the International operation
department in a Bank here in UK.

My purpose of contacting you is that I am looking for a Reliable partner in
a foreign country to place as the next of kin to a dormant account that have
not been operated for years in my bank with a total sum of £39,000,000. 00
Pounds and on further discreet investigation I also discovered that the
account holder has long since passed on (dead) leaving no beneficiary to the
account.

I contacted you because you are a foreigner and I will provide to you the
necessary claim documents the bank will require from you in other to claim
this fund including the details nformation of the account in my next mail.

I will inform you on what to do if you are going to assure me that you will
not betray me and my family with this fund in your possession so as to
enable me to start the paper work immediately without further delay.

I have a family of four, My wife claudia and hailey, brooke. Keep this
business within your self for security and safe reasons.Thanks as I'm in
anticipation of your favourable response.

Have a pleasant day.

Sincerely,

Mr. Andy Hulda.
+44-702 4024 864

NB :YOU CAN ASWELL CONTACT ME HERE IN MY OFFICE EMAIL -<hulda59@mail.az>

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