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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:
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +34699714108 (Spain, 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.
  • royalespana1@aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: wei weiherm <weihern001@web.de>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:33:52 +0200
Subject: PLEASE IT IS IMPORTANT






ROYAL ESPANA CONSULTANT S.A
AVDA. AMBAJADORES 25, C.P 28716,MADRID. SPAIN.
TEL: +34 699 714 108 FAX: +34 912 919 702
E-mail: royalespana1@aim.com [mailto:royalespana1@aim.com]

ATTN: SIR / MADAM,

Please pardon me for the informal way this email is reaching you. It is not my intention to approach you through the internet but because i do not have your full information,hence i decided to contact you through this means.

My name is Barrister Reyes Sanchez, the director of Royal Espana consultants S.A. I am contacting you solely on business related issues. is true that many people are engaged in different types of internet scam and that has further made it imposible for people to different between the genuine business proposal and dubious ones.

This business might be overtly or covertly wrong but i will not allow my client´s life time earnings to be confiscated by people who did not suffer with him.

My cleint, (Engr) Chung Timothy, an American citizen who died in a plane crash[Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers onboard on August 6,1997.And for your perusal you can view this web site (<http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list [http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list]>) before his demise he made a deposite of four million three hundred thousand euros in a bank here in Espana which i witnesed as his personal attorney and all the documents will be sent to you for your perusal at your demand.His only dauther whom he used as his next of kin was also involved in the same plane crash as above.And i have tried my best posible to contact any of his fimily members or extended family members to make claim this deposit but all to no avail.

The bank where he made the deposit has contacted me on this subject mater to provide the next of kin to my late client or the deposit will be taken to the national treasury as an abandoned deposit.

This is the reason why i am soliciting for your co-operation to be presented as a next of kin to my late client. All documents that will legallize you as the next of kin will secured by me by the power of attorney which is bestowed on me as his attorney.

Upon you agreement to work with me o acheive this aim, i will plead with you to give me these few informations of yours:

1.FULL NAMES................................................................
2.FULL MAILING ADDRESS ...........................................
3.AGE AND MARITAL STATUS ......................................
4.PROFFESSION ............................................................
5.PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS....................... (PLEASE FAX NUMBER IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE ALL THE DOCUMENTS WILL NOT BE SENT TO YOU THROUGH THE INTERNET).
6.A PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR ID OR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT FOR IDENTIFICATION.............
7.PLEASE DO NOT BOTHER TO INCLUDE YOUR BANK INFORMATIONS (THE BANK WILL ASK FOR IT)

Pease bear in mind that this issue is very confidendial and i promised you that within 21 working, this fund will be transfered into you choice bank account and i will glad to share this money 50 / 50 with you.
Reply to my private email royalespana1@aim.com [mailto:royalespana1@aim.com]
Please do not bother to reply if you are not willing to work with me.

Gracia.

Barrister Reyes Sanchez




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