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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge amount 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)
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +66892242190 (Thailand, probably a 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.
  • barrprebuguchee@net.hr

Fraud email example:

From: "barrprebuguche0@terra.es" <barrprebuguche0@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:42:35 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Your Kind Attention Please


From the Desk of,
Barrister Prebu Guchee
Chiang Mai, Thailand.
+66892242190

Greetings to you,

With warm heart I offer my friendship, and greetings, and
hope this mail meets you in good time. However strange or
surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not
met personally or had any dealings in the past, am
Barr. Prebu Guchee. am the Personal Attorney who
represented the interest of one Mr. Hans Busch an
Agriculturist who until his untimely death lived and made
a living as an Agriculturist.

I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its
importance and the immense benefit it will be to both of
us. After careful consideration am soliciting for your
assistance based on this proposition below,

PROPOSITION:

Mr. Hans Busch, an Austrian 66 years of age and a very
prosperous farmer and a business man made a huge deposit
for investment in the sum of US$23,500,000. = (Twenthy-Three
Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) he named his wife
Mrs. Silvia Busch as the NEXT OF KIN to his estate.

Unfortunately Sir and Mrs. Silvia Busch were killed in the
December 26, 2004 Thailand Tsunami that destroyed, killing
Thousands of people and 665 others were declared missing.
You can view my client and her lovely wife by visiting:
http://missingpersons.or.th/lostform_foundlistdetail.php?lost_id=200412311955

I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients
extended relatives, through the Austrian High Commission
here in Bangkok but to no avail and unsuccessful.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund
left behind by my late client because the bank have asked
me as his lawyer to produce his next of kin, the banking
system here in Thailand stipulates that if such money remains
with the bank for a period of 4 years it will be transferred
into the coffers of Her Majesty's (THE QUEEN) account of the
Treasury In order to avoid this development. I guarantee that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law of your country and my
Country too as a professional legal attorney in this field.

If you are interested in assisting me with this matter, please,
send to me urgently via my email the following details below:
1. Your full names.
2. Your Private telephone and fax number (urgent)
3. Your date of birth (Age) and proof that you can handle
such a huge amount of money and that you are a responsible
and very a serious person.

Based on this opportunity, upon receiving the above
details from you, I will work out every document/proof
representing you as the deceased BONA-FIDE distant
Relative and when this is done, you will be contacted by
the bank for the release and collection of the fund, which
will be within two week of my receiving the above details
from you.

I will meet with you in your country after the funds have
been released to you and also to discuss investment
Potentials and have my share of the money.

May I assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free,
as I have taken care of all necessary modalities as his
ATTORNEY to enable a hitch-free transaction.

I await your Favorable response through this
email: barrprebuguchee@net.hr

Yours sincerely,
Barr. Prebu Guchee.






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