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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "your urgent reply" (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 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.
  • +447024022636 (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.
  • jj_brown_2007@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: infor center <inforcente2007@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: jj_brown_2007@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:57:43 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: BEST REGARDS.


100 Liverpool Street London EC2M 2RH United Kingdom
Tel: (44)7024022636.
Email Address: jj_brown_2007@yahoo.com
http://www.ubswarburg.com
UBS INVESTMENT PAYING BANK
ATTENTION BENEFICIARY,
FROM THE DESK OF: MR. JOHN BROWN
GENERAL AUDITOR OF USB INVESTMENT BANK OF
LONDON UNITED KINGDOM.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL JOINT VENTURE PARTNERSHIP
INTRODUCTION:


I Am Mr. John Brown the auditor general of USB INVESTMENT BANK in LONDON. I got your contact from your country business guide as a reliable person. I want to transfer to overseas (126,000.000.00 POUNDS) from USB INVESTMENT BANK OF LONDON, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to work with me as a legal and honest partner to work together and get this fund and mostly the estate house before my physical arrival to your country for my own share and also coming down to London for the estate ownership claim, which the picture will be included, so I want you to get back to me immediately to stand as the legal change of ownership to this estate and fund, even an empty a/c can serve to receive the money after the legal procedures, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.

During the course of my auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in this bank in1990 and since then till 2006 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is MR. BROWN CRAIG, a foreigner, and an industrialist, he died, since 1993 and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Mr. Brown Craig until his death he was a director of Diamond Safari (PTY) SA. With account number #5005874CB1000.I have kept the information secret within myself to enable me look for any foreign partner of my choice who will assist me receive this funds.

However, every legal step will be put in place to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. We will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together and to build amount of confidence and trust between us. I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business. Your urgent reply will be highly appreciated to enable me inform you of the next step to take urgently because this transaction will be actualize within 14 working days.

All I need is your full co-operation to make this work fine. Because, USB INVESTMENT BANK management is ready to, approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are willing and ready to handle this deal.

With my influence in this bank we can transfer this money to any foreign reliable account that you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will be monitoring the whole situations here in the bank until you confirm this funds in your account. Then I will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this funds in your account. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 50% of the total amount, 45% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses incurred during the process of transferring after we might have receive the fund.

Look forward to your earliest reply and also give me a call +447024022636.
Thanks yours faithfully,
Mr. John Brown


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