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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "first national bank" (not involved with lotteries)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "because it still remains the fastest medium of communication" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "urgent assistance" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: R W <okaudu136@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <okaudu1@excite.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:37:44 +0200
Subject: HEAR FROM YOU URGENTLY



FROM: Mr.Robert Wiltsey, AUDITOR GENERAL First National Bank 6th floor, 1 First Place Cnr Simmonds & Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa.
Attn:
RE:TRANSFER OF USD52,000.00 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business. I choose to reach you through {Internet} because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this correspondence is private, and it should be treated in strict confidence. My name is Robert Wiltsey,I made your contact because i need your urgent assistance in this business transaction which will be a mutual benefit to both parties, and I will firstly like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to bothparties. In order to transfer out USD52,000.00{ Fifty tow million U.S dollar Only } from our bank here in South Africa. The fund for transfer is from clean origin. The owner of the fund is a foreigner, a program leader who was believed to acquire the fund through his Crude Oil deal with Kuwait government.The deceased died with all the members of his family in an auto-accident in June 23, 1999 without a WILL.
The amount involved is USD52,000.00 I want to transfer this money into your account as the foreign beneficiary to the fund. You will help by providing a safe bank account into which the money will be transferred even an empty account can serve provided it's valid,and you will stand as the next of kin to the deceased. At the successful transfer of the fund to your account, you will take 35% of the total transfer sum, 60% will be for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for transfer expenses both of us might incure during the transfer process. I CONTACT YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ME DOWN ONCE THE FUND GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.Hear from you,
Regards,
Mr.Robert Wiltsey.




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