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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign payment department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "dormant account" (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.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447011139985 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Pete Belding <pete_belding1920@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: pete_belding@myway.com
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:28:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: HOW ARE YOU TODAY?



The British Linen Bank Limited.

HBOS plc PO Box No. 5 The Mound

Edinburgh EH1 1YZ

DL-TELEPHONE: + 44-7011-139985





DATE: 26th February 2008

Good day, I know this will come to you as a surprise

but the need to involve a reliable and honest person

to transfer out 6,800,000.00 (Six Million, Eight

hundred thousand British Pounds Sterling) from my

employers (The British Linen Bank Limited) has made me

to seek your assistance believing that you are the

right person that will aid me in this deal.

I am Mr. Pete Belding, non-executive director of HBOS

plc I was appointed on 1 May 2007 (The British Linen

Bank Limited) There is an Account opened in this Bank

in 2000 and since 2005, nobody has operated this

Account again, after going through some old files in

the records, I discovered that the Owner of the

Account is Late. The owner of this Account is Late Mr.

Martin Oram, A Foreigner and investor by profession.

He died in an Auto Crash and no other person knows

about this Dormant Account or anything concerning it

and the Account has no beneficiary and I want to

inherit these funds for my private use but as a

non-executive director, I cannot lay claims on the

funds by my self and that is why I have contacted you

to use your name as the next of kin/beneficiary to the

Dormant Account and transfer these funds for my

private use.



I want you to stand as the Next Of Kin so that I will

use my High-Rank position here in this Bank to

convince other co-staffs to effect Legal approvals and

onward Transfer of this money to your Nominated

Account as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary of the funds

with appropriate clearance from probate registry &

Foreign Payment Department. I will destroy all the

documents concerning this transaction immediately the

funds are transferred to your nominated Account

leaving no trace of the transfer to any place and

apply for my resignation as this will enable me come

over to your Country to collect my share and invest a

good part of it on projects you will advise me as

lucrative in your Country.



I will take 80% and you shall take 20% of the total

sum hoping that the sharing ratio is accepted by you.

I am desperately waiting for your urgent response.

Regards,

Mr Pete Belding




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