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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:
  • "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
  • "clearance certificate" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "certified bank draft" (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• 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.
  • +447024077209 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: cruz morgan <mrcruzmorganprivate4@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: mrcruzmorganprivate@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:49:54 +0100 (BST)
Subject: from Mr. Cruz Morgan



from Mr. Cruz Morgan
CALL ME +44 702 407 7209

KIND ATTENTION
,

I am a Staff in one of the local Banks here in London and would like to do business with you if it is worthwhile to you. It is risk free and profitoriented but needed to be accorded with utmost secrecy for the reputation of those involved to be protected for security reasons.

I am the Chief Personal Account Officer to one Mr. Rafik Hariri from Lebanon who is now “LATE”.Log on to this website: www.hariri.info He is a London Government Foreign Contractor who resides in London temporary. I manage his Company’s and Personal Account in our Bank as his Account Officer.


Before Mr. Rafik Hariri’s death, he paid in a Certified Irrevocable Bank Draft of $32,350,000.00 issued to him by the Government of Londonrepresenting all outstanding accrued contract over due payment. Mr. Rafik Hariri instructed me to pay in the DRAFT into his newestablished personal current account which the next of kin to the account was made open,(Which means that anybody can be the NEXT OF KIN to the account and have direct access to call for International Wire Transfer). As per instructed by Mr. Rafik Hariri, the Certified Bank Draft was paid in to his new personal account which was cleared and credited several weeks after his death.

Mr. Rafik Hariri trusted me so much that he kept under my custody all his banking documentation including the new established personal current account documents for safekeeping. Neverhtless, it is now after the sudden death of Mr. Rafik Hariri and nobody has access to his account except me.

I am presently looking for a trustworthy person whom I will front to represent Mr. Rafik Hariri from Lebanon’s next of kin in order to claim the funds already in his account since nobody has the right to do so except me and will not be questionable by the banking authority as long as it is been done by me. This is a clean and straight forward deal that cannot be traced after its execution as long as it is been done according to the rule of the game.

If you are interested, I will offer you 30% of these $32,350,000.00 and you will provide a confident account or set up a new account so that the funds will be wired without stress. I will try by all possible means to bypass all restrictions and embargoes laid on International Wire Transfer by London Government to facilitate the movement of funds to the account that will be provided by you. I will also use my connections to secure the following documents through the Agencies involved in order to clear the funds and not to be questioned regardingits source by your banker and your country’s Government and finally have the funds “CREDITED” to your account without any delay.


•UNITED NATIONS FREE TERRORISM CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE.

•UNITED NATIONS MONEY LAUNDERING & DRUGS CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE.

A Lawyer will be secured to prepare all vital court certificates to back up the claims as the beneficiary’s next of kin. I will arrange a lawyer on your behalf. Kindly furnish me your: Mobile #, fax #, telephone #, for easy reach at any particular pointing time. Also your full banking coordinates where you wish the funds to be wired,I mean a secured and confident account.

I look forward to hearing from you and doing business with you in the

near future.


Thank You.

Sincerely Yours,


Mr. Cruz Morgan


CALL ME +44 702 407 7209




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