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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)
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Michael Donald <michdon05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <michdon1@walla.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 05:20:37 -0600
Subject: Partnership Participation



From: The Desk Of The
Foreign Remittance Department.Bank Of Thailand.Bangkok,Thailand. Dear Friend,I hope this mail doesn't come to you as an embarrassment as I receive unsolicited mails sometimes.I had your contact from our official web-site directory in this department.I wish to commend you to carry out this business proposal with human and sincere trust. l am Dr Michael Donald,Bank manager, long term fixed deposit dept, Bank Of Thailand Bangkok Thailand.l have an urgent and confidential business proposal for you. On June 6, 1998 CALIFONIAN TOP SELLERS AT FRANK HOWARD ALLEN REALTORS Mrs. JOYCE LAKE made a numbered time [fixed] deposit for twelve [12] calendar months, valued at US $9,600,000.00 [Nine Million Six Hundres Thousand United Sates Dollars] in my branch. Upon maturity, l sent a routine notification to her forwarding address but got no response. After a month l sent a reminder and finally discovered from her contract employers, FRANK HOWARD ALLEN REALTORS that JOYCE LAKE died at Alaska Airlines Flight 261 accident along with her husband. You can check out the website on CNN:http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list On further investigation, l found out that she died without making a (WILL) and all attempts to trace her next of kin was fruitless. l therefore made further investigation and discovered that JOYCE LAKE did not declare any kin or relation in her official documents, including her bank deposit paper work in my bank. This sum US$9,600,000.00 is still sitting in this bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. According to our National Law, at the expiration of Ten [10] years, the money will revert to the ownership of the government, if nobody applies to claim the funds. My contact and proposal with you is this:Since there is nobody to claim this fund and I don’t want this Fund get back to the hands of the corrupt government officials here in this country. Since all the documents will be issue to you as the next of kin/beneficiary.
The money will be transfered for us to share in the ratio of 50% for me and 30% for you. While the remaining 20% will be for the expenses both of us will inquire during the transaction. I wouldn't like my office to sense any element of my involvement in this business but I will guide you adequately on the steps to follow to enhance the easy transfer of this fund out of the bank volt. Be assured that there will be no atom of risk in this business and I will use my position in the bank to ensure that the transfer process in carried out quickly. Please, observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because l will require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Forward your direct mobile telephone number and other personal details to me with immediacy to commence the normal business procedure with regards to this humble proposal. Thanks for your anticipated compromise. Yours Faithfully,Dr Michael Donald.
( Mutual Relationship )



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