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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • liuyans_mail@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Liu Yan <liuyan_2007_1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <liuyans_mail@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:03:30 +0800
Subject: work with me




Hallo friend,This letter must surprise you because we have
never meet before neither in person nor by correspondence, but I
believe that it takes just one day to meet or know someone either
physically or through correspondence. I got your contact through
my personal search, you were revealed as being quite astute in private
entrepreneurship, and one has no doubt in your ability to handle a
financial business transaction. I am Mr. Liu Yan a transfer supervisor
operations in investment section in Bank of China Ltd. Secretariat of
the BOCHK Charitable Foundation 13/F. Bank of China Tower, 1 Garden
Road, Hong Kong I have an obscured business suggestion for you.Before
the U.S and Iraqi war our client General Mohammed Jassim Ali who work
with the Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed
deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of Nineteen million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only in my branch. Upon
maturity several notices was sent to him, even early in the war. Again
after the war another notification was sent and still no response came
from him. We later find out that General Mohammed Jassim Ali and his
family had been killed during the war in a bomb blast that hit their
home.After further investigation it was also discovered that General
Mohammed Jassim Ali did not declare any next of kin in his official
papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also
confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me
knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Nineteen million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one
will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that,
according to the to the laws of my country at the expiration 3 years
the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if
nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion
to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of
kin to General Mohammed Jassim Ali so that you will be able to receive
his funds.I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so
that we shall come out successful. I have contacted an attorney that
will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next
of kin to General Mohammed Jassim Ali, all what is required from you at
this stage is for you to provide me with your Full Names, private phone
number and Address so that the attorney can commence his job. After you
have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also fill in for
claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of
probate in your favor for the transfer of the funds to an account that
will be provided by you with my guidiance.There is no risk involved at
all in the matter as we are going adopt a legalized method and the
attorney will prepare all the necessary documents. Please
endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this
issue. Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank
account we shall discuss the percentage issue on your reply.If you are
interested please send me your full names, private phone/fax and
current residential address, and I will prefer you to reach me on my
private and secure email address below (liuyans_mail@yahoo.com.hk) and
finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this
operation.Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.N:B Please make sure you contact me on my private email (liuyans_mail@yahoo.com.hk)Kind RegardsLiu Yan
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