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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:
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "is highly confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "never tell anybody about" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "here in united kingdom" (this email uses bad English)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "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.
  • petercumi61@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Peter Cummings <petercumi57@yahoo.pl>
Reply-To: petercumi61@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:06:40 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Happy Christmas its Peter from London


Good day , How are you today? How was your summer? and I hope that you will be having a lovely Christmas as i wish you a very merry one indeed . I am contacting you immediately for this business transaction which is genuine and not hoax, besides i need to invest in Real estate business in your country and i need your advice only and for good and thats all.
I am also contacting you for i am in need for a reliable and honest
person to transfer out 25,500, 000.00(Twenty Five Million, Five Hundred
Thousand Pounds)from my bank( ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND,LONDON)which made me
to seek your assistance believing that you are the right person that
will aid me in this deal.

I will send a scan copy of my ID Passport for you to know me more
immediately you reply back.I am Peter Cummings, a fiduciary account staff of the Royal Bank of Scotland group here in United Kingdom.I am a
chartered accountant by profession, the personal account officer to Late Kurt Kahle,a foreigner and Investor by profession living here in London before his sudden death, He opened Account in my Bank. Unfortunately he lost his life with his family in a Plane crash on Monday 31st july 2000
while they were flying to New York on vacation.
for more information about the tragedy, Please click on this URL/Web
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
After my investigation, I found out that no body knows about this
Dormant Account or will come to claim the funds.
If we leave these funds without putting claim to it, the bank will
share it among the shareholder as end of the year profit, I have decided to inherit these funds for foreign investment purpose but i as a staff and the account officer, I cannot lay claims on the funds by myself and that is why i have contacted you to situate as the next of
kin/beneficiary to the Dormant Account and transfer these funds to you for foreign investment purpose .I will offer you 40% of the total sum.
I want you to situate as the Next Of Kin so that i will use my
High-Rank position here in this Bank to convince other co-staffs to effect
Legal approvals and onward Transfer of this money to your nominated Account as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary of the funds with appropriate clearance from probate registry & Foreign Remittance Department.
I will destroy all the documents concerning this transaction
immediately the funds are transferred to your nominated Account leaving no trace of the transfer to any place and apply for my resignation as this will
enable me come over to your Country to collect my own share of the
funds.I will take 50% and you will take 40% while 10% will be for any
expenses both parties will come across during the process of transferring the funds to your nominated account.
I hope that the sharing ratio is accepted by you.
I am desperately waiting for your urgent response so that i will tell
you more on what we are going to do for my bank to transfer these funds to you.
I want you to know that this business is highly confidential as it
is only between me and you,so,you should never tell anybody about this
transaction until we transfer the funds to your nominated Account to
avoid any betrayal of trust or any obstacle of progress.

I am waiting for your urgent response so that i will inform you more on
what we are going to do and inherit these funds succesfully within the
next ten Banking days.Am waitng to hear from you now via
( petercumi61@yahoo.com)
Best Regards,
Peter Cummings



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