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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "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)
  • "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 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.
  • rolandnageli02@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • rolannag56@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: BE MY BUSINESS PARTNER <rolandnageli02@yahoo.es>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:22:28 +0200
Subject: From: Mr. Roland R N.




From: Mr. Roland R N.
External Auditor

Hello,


I am an external auditor of a well known bank here in Spain. In one of our periodic auditing I discovered dormant accounts with holding balance of 10,000,000 (Ten Million euros) which has not been operated for the past years. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account, aboard the AF4590 plane with the entire family, which crashed Monday, 31 July 2000 into the Hotelissimo:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm].

On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a will all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless and he did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents in the bank.

I have secretly discussed this matter with the Bank branch manager we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with us, although due to his position he did not want to take active part but as soon as you follow my instructions everything will be successful because we will be working hand in hand with him.

In your acceptance of this deal, I request that you kindly forward to me your letter of acceptance through this email address: rolandnageli02@yahoo.es [mailto:rolandnageli02@yahoo.es] or rolannag56@yahoo.co.uk [mailto:rolannag56@yahoo.co.uk], and I will give you more details in regard to this. You will never regret being part of this deal, as every arrangement to pull the fund out of the bank to a security company has been completed and will be done perfectly; it’s a great opportunity for us.



Yours faithfully,

Roland R N.
PLEASE KEEP THIS PROPOSAL AS A TOP SECRET AND DELETE IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED.




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