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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.
• 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.
  • +2347082924492
• 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.
  • johnmarc4@walla.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: John Marc <marc.john97@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: johnmarc4@walla.com
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:38:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ASSIST ME.



FROM, MR .JOHN MARC,
PHONE,+234-70-82924492,
EMAIL,johnmarc4@walla.com.

HELLO,
I am contacting you today for a profitable business prosposal. My name
is WILLIAMS DUKE . I am a personal friend to late MR ANDREAS SCHRANNES.ANDREAS SCHRANNES was an estate and property magnate from Germany but resident in Nigeria.
ANDREAS SCHRANNES died recently in a plane crash with the whole of his family in a world tour cruise. Find more news in this website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Apart from being his personal friend I was also his
confidant . I was therefore in a position to know all his Financial
transactions as he trusted me . LATE MR ANDREAS SCHRANNE had a deposit of usd$40.5 million
with a famous security and finance company here which i want you to
help me receive and transfer into your bank account Till i come over to
join you for sharing and investment as you may direct me.
IF you agree to assist me ,I will give you all the details of the
transaction and the process of receiving the funds because you will act as
the next of kin to LATE MR ANDREAS SCHRANNE. For assisting me in this business you will
take 20% of THE USD$40.5 MILLION as your share and I will take 70% as
my share while the remaining 10% will take care of the expences we may
incure at the process of the transaction.
You will keep my share for me till I join you in your country a few
weeks after the transfer is made.
I want you to understand that I am not a dishonest man. I am only doing
this because if the security company discovers that Mr. ANDREAS and all
his relations are dead ,they will turn over the money to government and
this will not help me.Please note that there is no risk in this transaction as no relation of Mr. ANDREAS is alive today and the security firm
does not know he is dead yet. When you transfer the money the security firm
will assume it is Mr. ANDREAS' next of kin who is doing the transer
because I will provide you with his letters of administration to empower you
as his next of kin.
It was when I learnt of his death that I went to his room to search for
the paper works [Documents] relating to the said deposit and I found them
in concealed [secret] drawer in his bedroom.
Please reply this message soonest via my private email address if you are interested as above or call me on the above phone number for detailed discussions.
Yours sincerely,
JOHN MARC.



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