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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +34634090974 (Spain, 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.
  • davidander@mail.vu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DAVID ANDERSON JR." <davidanderson@mail.vu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:43:23 +0700
Subject: Regards to you and your Home !!!

Dear Friend,
My name is Mr.David Andersonl, I am a senior banker in a bank here in the
Madrid Spain.
I am contacting you for a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a
deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will
make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything
documents that will bring about the success of this transaction would be
provided, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact
you due to the urgency of this transaction.
The deceased person Neal Walker died in an air crash along with his wife on
the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on
board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid
Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his death from the website below which
was published by BBC WORLD NEWS. WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this
money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and
his wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his
account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next
of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to
make you the beneficiary to the funds #16,150 000 00 US Dollar (Sixteen
million, one hundred and fifty thousand United State Dollar) which will be
released in your favor as the next of kin. Because after few years now the
money will be called back to the bank bond treasury as unclaimed bills and
the money World be share amongst the directors of the bank. However, this
make me decide to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of
kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share
this money amongst themselves at the end of the year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order
of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge
receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by
furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1. Full names and address,
2. Telephone Number.
For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other. I shall be
compensating you with 45% of the above amount on final conclusion of this
project for your assistance, the balance 55% shall be for me , because I
intend to retire after the conclusion of this transaction . If this proposal
is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me immediately. Do not take
undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent
response.
Best Regards,
Mr.David Anderson.
Email : davidander@mail.vu
Contacts Telephone number +34 634 09 09 74

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