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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +447024091110 (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.
  • private.harold_paisner@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Harold Paisner <lottochamp2005@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: private.harold_paisner@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 03:10:20 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Please reply as soon as possible.


Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Adelaide House, London Bridge
London EC4R 9HA, England

Dear Friend,

I am Harold Paisner, member of International Bar Association; British Baltic Lawyers Association; Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) and President of the Foreign Investment Commission.

I was the Personal Attorney to late David Hermance, a national of your country, who was involved plane crash of July 2005, with his wife and his two daughters. David Hermance, 59, an executive of Toyota Automobiles here in the UK, died alongside his family when the engine of his small plane evidently stopped working and he crashed into the sea off the coast of California.

I am contacting you for assistance in retrieving some fund deposited in one of my late clients account valued at about Eight Million, Six Hundred and Forty Two Thousand British Pounds Sterling before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the finance house where these huge amount was deposited, since his wife and kids whom are supposed to inherit the fund were also involved in the air-crash and it is my duty to take responsibility for administering the whole estate but I have been unsuccessful in locating any of my client’s relatives.

Therefore, I now seek your hand in co-operation, to present you as the next of kin to my deceased client so you can claim this fund in your name for our mutual benefit. Upon my receipt of your positive response, I shall brief your more on the necessary modalities. For your assistance, I will compensate you with 35% of the total sum. 50% will be for me, and 15% will be set aside to offset all incidental expenses that might be incurred in the course of this transaction. E.g. phone call, payment of tax if so required by your government, etc.

Do get in touch with me as soon as possible to acknowledge the receipt of this mail via my private email box; private.harold_paisner@yahoo.co.uk or give me a call on my direct mobile-phone line: +44-702-4091110, but if the content this mail does not meet with your personality and business ethics, I sincerely apologize in advance. I anticipate your prompt response.

Regards,

Harold Paisner
Senior Partner
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Adelaide House, London Bridge
London EC4R 9HA, England


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