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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million dollars" (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 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.
  • +27782331086 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • robertspiff1@executivemail.co.za
  • robertspiff2@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "robertspiff@terra.es" <robertspiff@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 23:57:18 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Fund Relocation Re-Profiling


Dear Friend,

Re: Fund Relocation Re-Profiling

I am Robert Spiff, one of Executive Auditors of a Private Wealth Management Bank, here in South Africa. I am contacting you for a mutual beneficial business with believe that you will not disappoint us at last. What you are about to read might sound like a fiction but it is real. I have been mandated to contact you.

After going through some old files at the Files and Records Department of this bank, we discovered there were accounts opened in the bank in 1995 and since 2000 nobody has operated on the accounts. After discrete enquiries, we found out that the owner of the accounts was a late foreigner; a multi millionaire Jewish arms dealer and crude oil merchant who was killed in Gaza in 2005. Until now, nobody knows about the secret accounts or anything relating to them. The accounts have no stated beneficiary and our investigation proved to us as well that the deceased family does not know about the accounts. The amount in one of the accounts is a U.S$30 Million (Thirty Million Dollars) fixed-term deposits.

I am contacting you as a foreigner, in order to arrange with you the removal of this money from the dormant accounts before the next auditing of the accounts and services of the bank. If the bank management finds out that this account has been dormant for this long, it will be frozen and the money would be returned to the National Treasury, as unclaimed. This money cannot be approved to a local beneficiary here, but can be approved to a foreign account because the money is in foreign currency (U.S Dollars) and the deceased owner of the account, was a foreigner hence we want to involve you to stand as the “Next of Kin”. We need your full co-operation to make this intention work out perfectly because the bank management is ready to approve an immediate payment to whoever that would be presented as next of kin to the deceased. A perfect transfer strategy would be put in place in your name and favor, so that nobody will suspect you and us.

With our positions and influence here, this money would be re-profiled to your favor and transferred to any overseas bank account/s you will nominate, but with an assurance from you that this money will remain safe in your custody pending our arrival to join you for securing our share. After the transfer, all the documents relating to the transferred money will be destroyed immediately, in order to avoid future traces. For your involvement in this deal, you will receive a 25% of the total money. Feel free to call me for further discussions and guidance on what is expected of you. We will count on your sense of secrecy and confidentiality, in order to avoid risky exposure, considering the sensitivity of our intentions here.

I am anxiously looking forward to your urgent response, so we can start off.

Yours very sincerely,

Mr. Robert B. Spiff
T: +27-78-233-1086
F: +27-78-233-1087
E Mail: robertspiff1@executivemail.co.za or robertspiff2@yahoo.com






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