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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)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +447040129749 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447075024416 (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.
  • donald00brown@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "donald5050brown@terra.es" <donald5050brown@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:20:45 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: From Donald Brown (Natwest Bank London )!!!!!!



NATWEST BANK,
THE FINANCIAL OMBUDSMEN SERVICE,
SOUTH QUAY PLAZA,
183 MARSH WALL.
LONDON E14 9SR.
REPLY EMAIL: donald00brown@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. Donald Brown, I am in the treasury department of Natwest
Bank London.We had a foreign customer who deposited a huge sum of money
with our bank in 2001, eventually this customer died as a result of
prolonged ailment in 2003. Before his death, he had the sum of US$26.5m
(Twenty Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in his
account here in my bank.
Since the death of this customer, we have not have anybody coming for
the claim as the next of kin to the late customer and normally in the
banking sector, if nobody comes to lay claim to a late customer's deposit
after a period of time, the bank declares the deposit it's
profit thereby liquidating the deposit.

I have monitored closely with keen interest this customer's deposit
because of my position in my bank and managed it over the years before his
death and till now that he is dead because I happen to be his account
officer while he was alive, hence nobody has showed up as the next of
kin for the past four years, I have removed his file to my private vault.

I now solicit for your assistance to present you as the next of kin to
our late customer. Every arrangement has been concluded by me and I am
only waiting for a foreigner to enable me secure the funds from the
bank to his account overseas.

This does not have any risk attached to it as I will handle all the
internal documentations. Your interest will be negotiable before we
commence the operation.

Please note that all further correspondence you can reached me on my
confidential Telephone number +44 704 012 9749,+44 704 012 9750 fax: +44
707 502 4416, Reply email please: donald00brown@yahoo.co.uk

Waiting to hear from you.
Regards,
Mr. Donald Brown










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