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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:
  • "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)
  • "million 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)
• 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.
  • rimi_jack@mail15.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: RIMI JACK <rimi_j100@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: rimi_j1001@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:19:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Best Regard,


{URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL}
RE: TRANSFER OF ($30,000.000.00 USD}
{THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS)
GET BACK TO ME WITH THIS E-MAIL; rimi_jack@mail15.com
***********************************************************************
Dear,
We want to transfer to overseas $30,000.000.00 USD (Thirty Million United States Dollars) from a Bank in Africa. You can stand to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.
I am Rimi Jack, the Auditor General of a bank in Africa, during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1995 and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account again.

After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died without a beneficiary (heir), hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be confisticated by the bank.

The owner of this account is Mr. Frankline Sullivan, a foreigner, and a former employee of Phoneix Oil Coy, and he died, since 1998 and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it. The account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the account holder until his death was a prominent employee of Phoneix Oil Coy.
We will start the first transfer with Ten million US$10,000.000]. Upon successful transaction without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account.
The amount involved is (USD 30M)Thirty million United States Dollars only. I want to, first transfer $10,000.000 [Ten million United States Dollar) from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved with out a foreigner as beneficary of this account.

I am revealing this to you with belief in God that you will never let me down in this business, So please reply urgently so that I will inform you of the next step to take. Send also your private telephone and fax number.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine, because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive response, and once I am convinced that you are capable.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 60% of the total amount, 45% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses, both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.Please get back to me with this e-mail; rimi_jack@mail15.com
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regard,
Rimi Jack (PHD)


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