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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:
  • "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • matt_ollivier2007@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Societe Generale Bank,France" <card8888@bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: matt_ollivier2008@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:47:21 +0000
Subject: Foreign Partner



--
Matt Ollivier is my name [Private
Audit Dept]Societe Generale
Bank,France.
There is an account opened in this
bank in 1997 and since 2003 nobody
has operated on
this account.Going through
records,I discovered
if this money is not remitted out
urgently it would be forfeited to
the government as an
unserviceable dormant account.The
account owner was Dr. Nordeen El
Halaab,
a foreign geologist miner-Kruger
Gold Company,died 2003 in a plane
crash.No knowledge of

details
of this dormant account since his
death.



My findings during auditing end
2006,the deceased had no
will nor next of kin/beneficiary
and his last employers' are not
aware of this account

total sum of
[US$19,350,000.00].I wish to
transfer this fund into a safe
foreign account.My

estimates,this
transaction will be within 10
working days as soon as we hear
from
you further details will be sent.


Regards.

M Ollivier.
matt_ollivier2007@yahoo.fr

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