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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:
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "very 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)
• 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.
  • hussain.sridhar45@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR.HUSSAIN SRIDHAR" <hsridhar16@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hussain.sridhar45@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:02:17 +0400
Subject: VERY URGENT REPLY

Dear

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am Mr Hussain Sridhar , Working with a reputable bank in the uae write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.
I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On SEPTEMBER 28, 2002 , an American Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the "SAUDI ARAMCO", Mr. David Packard made a (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months, valued at US$17,500, 000.00 (Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my bank and I happen to be his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently. Upon maturity in 2003,as his account officer and as well the bank manager, it is my duty to notify him on the maturity date so I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but the letter was returned undelivered.
After sometime, I tried sending back the letter, but it was again returned and finally I discovered from his contract employers, "SAUDI ARAMCO" that Mr. David Packard died on a plane crash during one of his trips to an offshore location in Europe .

On further investigation, I discovered that Mr. David Packard made the fixed deposit for a business transaction he wanted to carry out in Emirates and that was the reason why he did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, issues relating to the deposit were not sited in his will as the deposit was meant to be for a fixed duration.This sum of $17,500,000.00 have been floating and placed under dormant/unserviceable account by my bank management since no one have heard from the owner since 2005. I wish to let you know that all the investigation I have made so far, my bank management is not aware of it; I am the only one that has the information.


I have been asked by bank Management to present the next of kin to these funds and have the funds certified in a new account or transferred out. In line with bank regulations, such funds will be certified as unclaimed and turned in to government treasury after the expiration of a certain period of time.

I cannot directly transfer out this money without your help as a foreigner and that is why i contacting you for assistance. As the Account Officer to late Mr. David Packard, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you and all documents to enable you claim this fund will be carefully worked out and there is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.

If you accept to work with me, I want you to provide me with your contact information’s, including your contact number and also I want you to state how you wish us to share the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. If you are interested, contact me as soon as you receive this message so we can go over to the details.
Thanking you in advance, please, treat with utmost confidentiality.[hussain.sridhar45@yahoo.com]

Mr. Hussain Sridhar

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