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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)
  • "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
• 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.
  • donkelly9000@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Red Cross <neddhelp@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <donkelly9000@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:43:10 -0600
Subject: Business Investment


Dear Friend, My name is Bernard Don Kelly, From Harlsden, North West London, here in England. I work for Lloyd's Tsb Bank London. I am an account Manager to highly placed customer with our bank who has a deposit sum of 13,647,235.00 Million GBP which is about $26.5million USA Dollars (Twenty Six million five hundred thousand USA Dollars) in our bank. He is a former president to a country (Name Withheld) now standing trier for war crimes in Hague-Holland. He recently passed a secret message to me
that I should get his deposited fund out of our bank to a trusted investor who will act as his business partner, because he does not want this money to be discovered and confiscated by the Interpol which will also complicate his case at the world court. I am writing this mail because I know it will be of immense benefit to both of us if you accept to be the business partner to receive the funds.
The choice of contacting you is aroused from the geographical nature of where you live and with the fact that you may be able to help us with receiving the money from the bank. This is a very sensitivity transaction it demand total confidentiality within us. I seek your consent to present you as his business partner and the beneficiary to the fund so that the funds in this account can be sent to you. The money will be shared in these percentages, 60% to the owner of the fund, while 30% is for you and 10% for me.
You should not entertain any fear in this transaction, because some of our bank directors are sympathetic to his plight. I will make arrangements with a cash courier company to carry the cash from this country to another country where it will be deposited in another bank before transferring to your account in your country. All I require now is your honest Co-operation,Confidentiality and Trust to enable us concludes this transaction on time. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please, provide the following, if you are willing to handle this transaction. On the receipt of your reply, I will send you a detailed plan of how you will receive this fund in your account. 1. Full Name and address2. Your direct private mobile telephone number for effective communication 3. Your Brief personal profile Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and
appreciated. Best regards,Bernard Don Kelly.Email: donkelly9000@yahoo.co.uk

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