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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  • seangallanti01@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sean Gallanti <seangallanti31@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <seangallanti01@myway.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:38:18 +0000
Subject: Please Let me hear from you as you acknowledge the receipt of my
mail.



>From The Desk of Attorney Sean Gallanti. E-mail:seangallanti01@myway.com
I am Attorney Sean Gallanti a personal attorney to my late client who is a nationality of your country unfortunately died on Terrorist Bomb blast attack on the 7th July 2005. Since the death of my late client, I as his personal attorney have made several enquiries to locate his relations for the inheritance claim without any success. I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal search for my late client relations/next of kin. so I decided to contact you for assisting in securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by my late client before it get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where my late client operates an account since the board of Directors of the bank has issued me a notice that after 2 months from now and no relation shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable. Since the board of Directors of the bank have been unsuccessful in locating my client relatives for some time now, it's on this note that I seek your consent to present you as the relation to my late client, so that the process of this deposit to be released into your account. The amount deposited is $12.8 Million Dollars also I believe With your assistance to get the release of the ($12,800,000.00 ) I will agree to give you 50% of the fund while 50% will be for me. I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law. I will be looking forward to your indication of interest so that we can proceed with the process of claiming the funds with the below information I will like you send to me:- 1, YOUR FULL NAME 2, YOUR CONTACT MOBILE TELEPHONE AND HOME NUMBER FOR EASY COMMUNICATION. 3, YOUR FULL CONTACT HOME ADDRESS. 4, YOUR AGE.5, YOUR PROFESSION. As soon as I receive all these information from you I will start the process of all the legal approval documents with the above information you will send to me and present you to the bank Directors that I have locate the relation/next of kin to my late client since they asked that I should provide the relation/next of kin for them to release the inheritance fund to the person. Please Let me hear from you as you acknowledge the receipt of my mail. NOTE (UPON YOUR ACCEPTANCE, REPLY ONLY TO THE ABOVE AND BELOW E-MAIL ADDRESS). Yours sincerely, Attorney Sean Gallanti.E-mail: seangallanti01@myway.com
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