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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "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 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.
  • +447031841338 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rick Anderson" <rickanderson0002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rickanderson0004@myway.com
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:36:24 +0000
Subject: GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND.

Charter Bank Plc.,
38 Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge
London SW1X 0LZ-United Kingdom
Feel-Free to Call +44 703 184 1338.

Good Day,
I wish to inform you that, this Letter is not a Hoax Mail, and I urge you to
Treat it with seriousness.I want to Transfer to Overseas Account
(USD$30,000,000.00) Thirty Million United State Dollars) from a Prime Bank
here in London.

I want to know, If you are not Capable,then i will quietly look for a
Reliable and Honest person who is Capable and fit to Provide Eitheran
Existing Bank Account or set up a New Bank A/C immediately to receive this
Money. Even an Empty A/C will serve to receive this Money, as long as you
will remain Honest to me until the end of this important Business trusting
in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
the future.

I am Mr.Rick Anderson,presently promoted to Auditor General in one of the
Banks here in UK. During the Course of our Auditing last week, I discovered
a floating Funds in an Account opened in the Bank in 1996 and since 1998
nobody has operated on this Account again, after going through some old
files in the records. I discovered that, the owner of the said Account died
without a[Heir/WILL]hence the Money is floating, and if I do not remit this
Money out urgently, it will be forfeited for Nothing.

The Owner of this Account is Mr. Gorge Roland, an American and a great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska State, who unfortunately lost his
life in the Plane Crash,Alaska Airlines Flight No.261, which Crashed on
January 31 1998, including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to
claim this Money.

No other person knows about this Account or anything Concerning it, the
Account has no other Beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that, the
Account is a secret Account. The total amount involved is Thirty Million
United States Dollars only [$30,000,000.00] and i wish to transfer this
Money into a safe foreign Account abroad.

But I don't know any foreigner; I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this Money cannot be approved to a local person here, but to a
foreigner who has information about the Account,which I shall give to you
upon your positive response.
I am revealing this to you with believe in God that, you will never let me
down in this business,you are the first and the only person that I am
contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform
you the next step to take urgently. I need your strong assurance that you
will never let us down me.

I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for
onward transfer of this Money to your Account with appropriate clearance
from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the
conclusion of this Business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 70%
will be for me. please treat this proposal as a top secret.
I look forward to your earliest reply,
Best Regards,

Rick Anderson.

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