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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Ronald Naidoo <dnaidoos@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:36:33 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend,


Dear Friend, I know this mail will come to you as a suprise, I am Mr Ronald Naidoo, the manager bill and exchange of the foreign remittance department of Caisse Nationale De Securite Sociale, TOGO. My dear, I am trusting this huge project to you by faith and hope that you will handle it without any problem. In my department file, there is an abandoned deposit in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer a national of your country Mr Victor , who was a victim of the Tsunami disaster in 2004. He died along with his wife and the only daughter during holidays in Thailand in 2004. Since His death, I have been watching out for his next of kin to come over and claim this money because, the bank cannot release it to any person unless somebody apply for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as it is indicated in our banking guidelines and laws. It is therefore upon this that I have decided to contact you as a foreigner hence you have the same last name or common n
ame with the banks late customer and for you to stand as the next of kin or a relation to deceased person for and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for the claim and I dont want this money to go into the banks treasury as unclaimed bill as the banking law and guideline ARTICLE A section CNSS/O11 of 1991, stipulates that if such funds are found in our bank after five(5) years and still remain unclaimed, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. Therefore, to enable the immediate release of the deposit to you, you will have to apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin to the deceased hence he is a foreigner.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application, I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and do not entertain any fear as all required arrangement has been made for the release. Please contact me once you receive this mail so that we can proceed. Trusting to hear from you. Best Regards, Mr Ronald Naidoo



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