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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +27766081037 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27865111775 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • vanderwaltzachiefaccountant@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: first national bank <vanwaltzafnb3@web.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:55 +0200
Subject: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL


PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
email; vanderwaltzachiefaccountant@gmail.com
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Attn: SIR/MADAM,
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I am Mr. Van Der Walt, the chief accountant of FNB Bank (SA). There is an =
account open in this bank in 1999 and since 2001 nobody has operated on th=
is account. After going through some old files in the records, I discovere=
d that this funds can be remitted out urgently if not it would be forfeite=
d for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr. Andreas Schranner German B=
usiness Man and a miner at Kruger Gold Company, a Geologist by profession;=
he died in the year 2000. No other person has realize this account or any=
thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investiga=
tion proved to me as well that his company has no ideal about this account=
with Thirty Six Million United States Dollars (US$ 36 Million). =20
PROPOSITION.
An amount of US$ 26 Million from these funds can be transferred into a saf=
e overseas account before the rest. We cannot release the fund from his ac=
count unless someone applies for claim as the next-of kin to the deceased =
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Indicated in our banking guidelines. It may interest you to know that I ca=
n have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of dece=
ased beneficiaries. You can view the web site bellow for more information =
on our late client.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm=20
This deposit was for 5 years and upon maturity I made effort to contact my=
client, l could not reach him. I was forced to travel to Germany and ther=
e I got the tragic news that, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife Ma=
ria, their daughter Andrea Eich, his son in law Christian, and their child=
ren Maximilian and Katharina, all perished on the Monday, 31 July, 2000 pl=
ane crash in western German city of Moenchengladbach
Please acknowledge receipt of this message to my above contacts and call m=
e immediately on above number in acceptance of my mutual business proposal=
. Endeavor by furnishing me with the following before I give you more deta=
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FULL NAMES:...............................................................=
...............
CONTACT ADDRESS:....................CITY/STATE:........................
COUNTRY:............................NATIONALITY:..........................=
.....
OCCUPATION..........................MARITAL STATUS.....................
SEX:.............................AGE:.....................................=
....................
TEL NO:......................................FAXES NO:....................=
...............
These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the appropriat=
e departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer c=
an be made. We shall be negotiate your percentages on your response before=
conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us for investmen=
t purposes, if this proposal is acceptable to you, do not take undue advan=
tage of the trust I have bestowed in you.=20
I await your urgent response.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Van Der Walt
E-mail: vanderwaltzachiefaccountant@gmail.com
TEL: +27 76 6081 037, FAX; +27 86 5111 775

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