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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: tim david <timmdavid65@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <timmdavid4@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:43:25 +0100
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT!!!!!


FROM THE DESK OF:MR.TIM DAVID,
PRIME TRUST BOND COMPANY, LONDON.
UNITED KINGDOM.
ATTN: DEAR FRIEND,
I am Mr TIM DAVID,The Auditor General Prime Trust Bond Company London.

There is this immigrant (Michael Gambone) who was a gas consultant here in UK, who happens to be one of our very good clients. He died with his wife(Deborah Gambone)on board the Swissair Flight 111 , which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. The news of this crash was on the news which we have notified his relatives to no avail.See links below for more detail information:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/

Before his death, he was having a closing balance of $3.5Million (Three million five hundred thousand dollars only) in my company with account no: 0143355013 & deposit code no: ptbaxbsl. Upon maturity, a routine notification was forwarded to his address but we got no reply.

All attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.I therefore made further investigations and discovered that (Mr.Michael Gambone) did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork in my bank.
However,during our further routine audit check,I saw your name and email as the only benefactor and heir apprent in one of the forms he filled with us and I have to contact you.This sum of us$3.5m has been floating as unclaimed fund since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.

According to the British Law,the money will be revert to the ownership of the British government if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid this money being sent to the British treasury as unclaimed funds,I have decided to contact you so that the said fund would be released in your name as the next of kin and paid into your account.
On conclusion of the transaction,we shall decide on how much should be given to me.
You should Please send to me your confidential telephone number, your Address, your profession and age, to expedite action immediately.

Your Faithfully,
Mr TIM DAVID.
AUDITOR PRIME TRUST BOND COMPANY LONDON.

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