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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)
  • "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
  • "this business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • dr_horan01@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Luk=E1=B9=20=A9perl?= <sperlLukas@seznam.cz>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:25:27 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?URGENT=20AND=20CONFIDENTIAL=20MESSAGE=21=21=21?=

From The Manager Credit and foriegn Bills
Absa Bank South Africa
Harfield, Pretoria
South Africa.

Attention: Dear Friend,

Firstly, I sincerely apologize for breaking into your privacy, however I have decided to contact you through this medium due to the urgency of this proposed business transaction. I got your contact over the Internet during my search for assistance in this mutual beneficial business transaction. I must first solicit your strictest confidentiality in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL \ldblquoteTOPSECRET\rdblquote. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, considering the fact that we have not met each other before, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

My name is Dr. Brian Horan. The manager, Credit and Foreign bills of Absa Bank South Afica. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with account number -908-14-255-114 with name Frank Ogboru(Mr.), a Nigerian business man who died in a scoopful with the police officers in scotland yard on september 27th, 2006. For your perusal you can view this website.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407467&in_page_id=1770

Since the demise of this customer, I personally have watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$15.5M (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thoudsand United States Dollars) which has been with our branch for a very long time. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin as no one has come up as his next of kin. And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than two years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed fund after this period, we just have a couple of months to apply for these funds.

In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal, when I was making a research on a foreigner I will use in this great opportunity. For your assistant I am willing give you 20% of the total amount. Upon the receipt of your response, I will send you by fax or e-mail the bank form of application which you will type sign and send back to our bank to enable us start this processing of this claim. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer of this fund has been finalized, this transaction will be completed within five banking days of recieving your response, and after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased.

Kindly send me an e-mail to this address or to dr_horan01@yahoo.it, signifying your decision. Please include your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication on my personal email address.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Brian Horan.
Manager Credit and Foriegn Bills,
Absa Bank South Africa.

N.B. PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL AND COMPLETELY FREE FROM TERRORIST, DRUG MONEY OR MONEY LAUNDERING. THIS IS A COMPLETE AND LEGITIMATE BUSINESS TRANSACTION.

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