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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:
  • "i will like you to " (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)
• 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.
  • bar_sol_wong@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DAVID WONG AND ASSOCIATES" <davidwongandassociate@hamdard.net.pk>
Reply-To: bar_sol_wong@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:49:45 +0500
Subject: KINDLY GET BACK TO ME FOR MORE INFORMATION

DAVID WONG AND ASSOCIATES
SOLICITOR AND ADVOCATES
NO. 24, JALAN MELAKA RAYA 31,
TAMAN MELAKA RAYA
MALAYSIA
TEL: +60172800489

I am David Wong, an attorney at law. A deceased client of mine, that
shares the same last name as yours, who here in after shall be referred
to as my client, died as the result of a heart-related condition on the
11 November 2001. His heart condition was due to the death of all the
members of his family in the Gulf Air Flight Crashes in Persian Gulf
near Bahrain Aired August 23, 2000 - 2:50 p.m. ET as reported
on:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/23/bn.08.html

I have contacted you to assist in distributing the money left behind by
my client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank
where this deposit valued at Seventeen million five hundred dollars(
US$17.5 million dollars) is lodged. This bank has issued me a notice to
contact the next of kin, or the account will be confiscated.

My proposition to you is to seek your consent to present you as the
next-of-kin and beneficiary of my named client, since you have the same
last name, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.
Then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed-upon percentage. All
legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin will be
provided. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
transaction through.

This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from many breach of the law. If this business proposition offends
your moral values, do accept my apology. I must use this opportunity to
implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter
extraordinary confidential, whatever your decision, while I await your
prompt response. Please contact me at once to indicate your interest. I
will like you to acknowledge the receipt of this e-mail as soon as
possible via my private EMAIL (bar_sol_wong@hotmail.com) and treat with
absolute confidentiality and sincerity. I look forward to your quick reply.

Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a wife and children. I
send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of
gold. This is the one truth I have learnt. Do not betray my confidence.
If we can be of one accord, I assure you that everything will be fine.
I await your prompt response.

Best regards,
David Wong.
Attorney at Law
NB: All response should be mailed to:bar_sol_wong@hotmail.com

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