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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "phillip thomas" <phillipthomass496@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: phillipthomass10@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 16:30:28 +0100
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT.....

FROM THE DESK OF:MR.PHILLIP THOMAS,
PRIME TRUST BOND COMPANY, LONDON.
UNITED KINGDOM.
ATTN: SIR,
I am Mr Phillip Thomas,The Auditor General Prime Trust Bond Company London.

There is this immigrant (Michael Gambone) who was a gas consultant
here in UK, who happens to be one of our very good clients. He died
with his wife(Deborah Gambone)on board the Swissair Flight 111 , which
crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. The
news of this crash was on the news which we have notified his
relatives to no avail.See links below for more detail information:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/

Before his death, he was having a closing balance of $3.5Million
(Three million five hundred thousand dollars only) in my company
with account no: 01514770727 & deposit code no: ptbaxbsl. Upon
maturity, a routine notification was forwarded to his address but we
got no reply.

All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.I therefore made
further investigations and discovered that (Mr.Michael Gambone) did
not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents,
including his bank deposit paperwork in my bank.
However,during our further routine audit check,I saw your name and email as
the only benefactor and heir apprent in one of the forms he filled with us
and I have to contact you.This sum of
us$3.5m has been floating as unclaimed fund since 2000 in my bank
as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.

According to the British Law,the money will be revert to the ownership
of the British government if nobody applies to claim the fund. To
avoid this money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed
funds,I have decided to contact you so that the said fund would be released
in your name as the next of kin and paid into your account.

On conclusion of the transaction,we shall decide on how much should be given
to me.
You should Please send to me your confidential telephone number to expedite
action immediately.

Your Faithfully,
Mr Phillip Thomas.
AUDITOR PRIME TRUST BOND COMPANY LONDON.

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