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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:
  • "you will be given 30%" (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 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.
  • smith0_harry@yahoo.dk

Fraud email example:

From: "smith_harry00@terra.es" <smith_harry00@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:52:09 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: INQUIRY


I am Mr. Harry Smith the Auditor of United Bank for
Africa Plc (U.B.A).
There is an account opened in this bank in 1980 and
since1990 it has been dormant and after going through some
oldfiles in the records I discovered that the rightful
operator is now dead and if I do not remit this money
outurgently it would be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr. Juichi Shimazaki a
foreigner and the manager of Granite Mining Nig, a
chemical engineer by profession, he died since 1990.
No other person knows about this account or anything
concerning it. The account has no other beneficiary
and my investigation proves to me as
well that his company does not know anything about
this account and the amount involved is (U.S.
$26,000,000.00).And all efforts to trace his descendant proved
abortive.

Then I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign
account broad, but I get a trusted friend who has
Foreign account, I am only contacting you as a
foreigner to help make claims on this money as Mr.
Shimazaki next of Kin, the money can only be approved
to a foreign account, because it's in U.S Dollars and the former owner of the account
Mr. Juichi Shimazaki a foreigner from Japan. And I
will use my position to influence other staffs to
effect the legal approvals and onward transfer of this
money to your account with appropriate clearance from
foreign payment department, if only you assure me that
you can handle this money and keep it intact pending
my physical arrival in your country. At the conclusion
of this business, you will be given 30% out of the
total amount,60% will be for me,while 10% will be for
expenses, both parties might have incurred during the
process of this transaction.

I look forward to your earliest reply.
And you can contact me at my personal email smith0_harry@yahoo.dk
Yours Truly,
Mr. Harry Smith





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