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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:
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • +447031922156 (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.
  • jeffart103@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "jeffart10@terra.es" <jeffart10@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:14:08 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Urgent transfer needed


Compliments,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it seriously. We want to transfer to an overseas account $16,5M USD (Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from one of the banks in Netherlands. I wish to ask you, to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business ,I am trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am Mr Jeffery Daniels Banda, During the course of our auditing last week,I discovered a floating fund 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 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 Mr. Morris Thompson an American, a great industrialist and a resident of Alaska, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody as next of kin. You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site: (www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list)

No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigations proved to me as well that the account is a secret one.

The total amount involved is Sixteen million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only [$16,500.000.00] and we wish to transfer this money into a safe foreigner's account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a one 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, that is the key bank officials who are deeply involved with me in this business. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

The bank officials will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money,leaving no trace to any place. 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,60% will be for us (My colleagues and I), while 10% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transfer. I look forward to your earliest reply.You can reply me with my alternative email jeffart103@yahoo.co.uk or call me on +44 703 1922 156 for more details.


Best Regards,

Mr. Jeffery Daniels Banda
London, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 703 1922 156





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