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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Chong Hing Bank Limited Hong Kong" <stephanie.miller.2004@owu.edu>
Reply-To: caixa11@live.com
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 19:56:20 EDT
Subject: Proposal



--
Dear Sir/Madam,


I am Mr Jea John Lee I work with Chong Hing Bank Limited
Hong Kong.Before the U.S and Iraqi war our
client Colonel Sadiq Uday who was with the Iraqi forces and
also
businessman, made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar
months, with a
value of Nineteen million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars
only in my branch.Upon maturity several notices was sent to
him, even
during the war which began in 2003. Again after the war another
notification was sent and still no response came from him. We
later
found out that the Colonel along with his wife and only
daughter had been killed
during the war in a bomb blast that hit their home.

After further investigation it was also discovered that
Colonel Sadiq
Uday did not declare any next of kin in his official papers
including the
paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the
last time
he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit
in my bank.

So, Nineteen million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars is
still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to
claim it. What
bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at
the
expiration 5 years the funds will revert to the ownership of
the Hong Kong
Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this
backdrop,
my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to
stand as the
next of kin to Colonel Sadiq Uday so that you will be able to
receive
his funds.


Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank
account we shall then share in the ratio of 65% for
me, 35% for you.Should you be interested please send me your,

1:Full names,
2:Occupation
3:Private phone number:
4:Current residential address:

at my Email: caixa11@live.com


Kind Regards,
Mr Jea John Lee

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