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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:
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • ",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)
  • "top secret" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Asif abbas" <asifabbas00024@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: asifabbas.infor@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 05:15:37 +0900 (JST)
Subject: PLEASE RESPOND URGENTLY

Greetings to you,

My name is Mr. Asif Abbas, a banker here in U.A.E. I write you this proposal in good faith as a brother. In 2002 an American Crude Oil dealer Late Mr. Mike Dawes, made a fixed deposit for 36 calendar months, valued at Seventeen Million, Five hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$17,500,000.00) with my
bank. I was his account officer before I rose to the position of manager. The maturity date for this deposit contract was 20th of August 2005. Unfortunately, he died in a suicide bomb attack on the 24th of August 2005 in baqubah, Iraq. The account has no next of kin and he did not include any
other living relatives to inherit this fund. http://icasualties.org/oif/Civ.aspx

Some top management officials of the bank have been trying to find out from me the information about this account and the owner, but I have kept it closed because, I know that if they become aware that Mr Dawes is now late, they will corner the funds for themselves. Therefore, I am seeking your
co-operation to present you as the next of kin / business partner to the account since you are a foreigner, so that my bank head quarters will release the funds to you. It is only a foreigner who can claim the funds in the account. Please, treat as top secret, I am the only person having this
information. Let me know your interest and your terms if we will use your bank account to receive this money.

Regards,
Mr. Asif Abbas



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