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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 deposit" (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.
• 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.
  • lopezsandra002@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "contactsandra@terra.es" <contactsandra@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:01:33 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL



CONFIDENTIAL

Dear


With due respect and honour I wish to contact you through this medium. I am. Lopez Sandra, the Manager Funds release with a Notable Bank in Madrid Spain). I am the account officer in charge of a costumer’s account who was latter confirmed dead January 2006.
This customer had a non residential account with our bank and never involved or attach to his account any next if kin

Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my clients extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you to assist in receiving the money left behind by my client before the MONEY get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged).

The deceased had an account valued at ($4.6million) (Us dollars), and the bank authority had Issued notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next 22 working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 1 years now, and I have discovered during my search that one of your names falls in as the same names of the late customer, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at ($4.6) (Us Dollars) can be paid into your account and then you and me Can share the money .

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement.
For confidentiality of this, I decided to withhold the full name of the bank and the deceased name for now.
As soon as you response to my request, I will give you the contact of the bank and the name of the deceased (and other vital information’s which will enable you apply for the payment).

FOR CONFIDENTIALITY,
You can contact me on my personal telephone and email address with,
Email: lopezsandra002@hotmail.com
LOPEZ SANDRA





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