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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:
  • "inheritance tax" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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 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.
  • stewart_barculo4@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: stewart_barculo5@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:24:54 +0100
Subject: I await your response.

Standard Life Bank,
30 Lothian Road,
Edinburgh EH1 2DH


Good Day To You,

Though i have not considered this medium to be the best
manner to have
approached you on this issue being that the internet has
been greatly abused
over the recent years and is very unsecured for informations
of vital
importance. I have decided to take the chance seeing that no
other means could
have been faster and more efficient than the E-mail

I am Stewart Barculo, Staff Standard Life Bank Limited.I am
contacting you
concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed
under our banks
management three years ago.I would respectfully request that
you keep the
contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity
of the information
you come by as a result of this mail. I contacted you
independently of our
investigation and no one is informed of this communication.
I would like to
intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of
interest to you.In
2000,
the subject matter; came to our bank to engage in business
discussions with our
private banking division. He informed us that he had a
financial portfolio of
fifty million united states
dollars($50,000,000,00).i want you to stand as the bona-fide
next of kin to the
desease.

My proposal; you share the same surname With our late
client; I am prepared to
place you in a position to instruct The security Firm to
release the deposit to
you as the closest surviving relation.Upon receipt of the
deposit,I am prepared
to share the money with you in half. That is: I will simply
nominate you as the
next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We
share the proceeds 50%
for me, 50% for you Should you be interested please send me
your full
names,privatephone/fax number and A valid
identification,This is not going to
cost you anything from my end because i am the one that will
take care of the
attorney's charges for the preparation of the legal
documentations and also pay
for the inheritance tax from here because i do not want you
to have any problem
paying tax so i will take care of that from here,The only
thing that you are
going to do is to open an account in your name and this is
going to be your
personal account in an offshore bank and send the details to
me for us to
transfer the funds from here. I will prefer you reach me on
my private email
address below And finally after that i shall provide you
with more details of
this transaction.Your earliest response to this letter will
be highly
appreciated.

EMAIL ;stewart_barculo4@yahoo.co.uk

I await your response.

Mr Stewart Barculo.

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