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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • mikeemma@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mike Emma <mikeemma20021@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:10:50 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Please Reply


Attn: Please
My name is Mr.Mike Emma a British citizen and i work with the account department Union Bank Swiss Finance Company here in London and i am only writing to seek your assistance so that you can help me secured this fund for me. I wish to make a transfer involving a huge amount of money (US$11.2m) eleven million two hundred thousand United States Dollars belonging to our client with Account Number UBS 101-7687-004, Mr. Andreas Schaffer, a German property magnate who lost his life on Monday 31st of July 2000 along with his wife and their two children in a plane crash. The AF4590 crash include all 109 people on board and five who died on the ground when the plane crashed into the Hotelissimo. Since this happen we have been looking for the next of kin to this young man who lost his life and the family, since then no one has shown as the next of kin to this family and this amount is yet to be credited in his favor before he died on the plane crash. Refer to
the website below for more details:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.

I want you to open an account with my Bank or send your bank information so that I can credit this amount to you while you shall receive 40% of the fund I and my colleague will
have 60%.
If you are interested in this transaction please fill
the form below and get back to me immediately and for your information this is 100% risk free. The name
of the Finance and Security Company and all relevant information's
will be given to you, when you contact me on my private Email:
mikeemma@myway.com



Treat with utmost confidentiality. Yours sincerely, MR. Mike Emma

PERSONAL DATA FULL NAMES:________________________________________
GENDER_ DATE OF
BIRTH:_____________________________________ NATIONALITY:
_______________________________________ COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:
___________________________ MARITAL STATUS:
__________________________________ HOME
ADDRESS:____________________________________ OFFICE
ADDRESS:___________________________________ TELEPHONE
NUMBER:________________________________ FAX
NUMBER:________________________________________
OCCUPATION:________________________________________
POSITION HELD:______________________________________ EMAIL
ADDRESS:_____________________________________ NEXT OF
KIN:___________________________________


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