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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +27834250966 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • yespowerjames1a@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: JAMES ANDERSON <yespowerjamesk19@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <yespowerjames@safe-mail.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:14:35 -0800
Subject: THIS IS REAL (FAVOUR)



THIS IS REALPLEASE CONTACT ME WITH YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL FOR GOOD SECURITY REASONTHIS IS CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION.IF IT IS YOUR CORRECT EMAIL CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY.

MR .JAMES ANDERSONABSA BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA.MOBILEPHONE:+27-834250966 EMAIL:yespowerjames1a@hotmail.com

ATTTENTION:
This is real I have been trying to correct your e-mail address since I lost your contact

TRANSFER TAKES THREE WORKING DAYS.
Courtesy of Business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on strong desire to solicit for your assistance on this mutual beneficial and risk freetransaction with you, which I hope you give urgent attention. To be precise, Is me MR JAMES ANDERSON the SENIOR AUDITOR of the ABSA BANK OF SOUTH . In my department, 1 discovered an abandoned sum of US$12,524,000.00 (Twelve Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Four Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our customers who died along with his entire Atlanta family in 2003 july 21 Lockerbie Pan American Airline plane crash.

website :http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Since we got information about his death, i have been expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his money, because i can not release it unless somebody applied for its next of Kin or Relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking procedure, but unfortunately to no avail, and nobody has come forward to claim the money (because the mentioned next of kin which is Son died as well). Therefore, upon this discovery I now decide to establish acordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting you. I want you to purportedly present your good self as the next of Kin or relation of the deceased so that I can prepare documentations as exchange of ownership and release the funds (US$12.524 Million) into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and again i do not want the funds to go into the Governments account as Bill”. The banking law and procedures in South Africa here stipulates that any account abandoned or dormant for a period of some years is subjected to be closed and all money contained therein will be forfeited to the Government Treasury Account. Now it is being speculated thatthe above sum will be transferred into Government Treasury Account as unclaimed funds on very soon this year .The reason for you to present your good self as the next of kin in occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner. Mode of sharing after the successful completion of the transfer is as follows, for the role you will be expected to play in the whole exercise, I have agreed to give you (5million dollars) of the total sum, and 5% has been set aside for expenses we are going to encounter by both parties in the process of this transaction and the remaining shall be for my . In support of the aforementioned, you are urged to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business. I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected in order to achieve and maintain maximum confidentiality.
Trust to hear from you through my mobilephone:+27-834250966 or EMAIL:yespowerjames1a@hotmail.com in the letter as I count on your earliest response,Note we have to discusse,As your interest will be equally protected please. Yours truly, MR JAMES ANDERSONThe Auditor Department of ABSA BANK OF SOUTH AFRICAMOBILEPHONE:+27-834250966
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