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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "foreign remittance department" (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.
  • +8613570345218 (China, 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.
  • david.jinang@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "david jinang" <djinang6@peru.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:39:34 +0800
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF DR .DAVID JINANG


*FROM THE DESK OF DR .DAVID JINANG*
*BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
I.C.B.C BANK OF CHINA.
20/ YueBei, Dongfen. GAUNGZHOU CHINA.*
**
*TOP SECRET
Dear Friend*
**
*I am DR. DAVID JINANG . the bill and exchange manager at the foreign
remittance department of I.C.B.C.BANK OF CHINA. I got your contact from the
internet ,while seaching for an honest and trust worthy person, who will
assist me to implement this transfer.l discovered the sum of Twenty Two
Million and five hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD22.5M) belonging
to a deceased customer of this bank.*
**
* The fund has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to
put claim over the money since the account owner late Mr KHAN AHMAD from
INDONESIA , who was involved in the Sunday, November 21, 2004 China Plane
crash Posted: 9:30 PM EST (0230 GMT) .*
**
* Here is the air crash website on cnn.
**http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/20/china.planecrash/*<http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/20/china.planecrash/>

*The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased
customer of the bank. Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws but unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation are nolonger to be
found through the proper verification i and my coleagues had made. nobody
is leaving behind for the claim.*

* I and my family in this transaction will proceed immediately to your
country for our own share of the money. I expect you to keep this
business strictly confidential and secret as you may wish to know that I am
Bank official.*
**
*Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk free on both side and every
arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to provide
have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality and
secreceirity involved.*
*Contact me on my private phone number( +86-1357-03-45218.. **In order to
avoid unnecessary delays and complications, Please quote your,
*
*
Send above information in your correspondences with your or email address
at(david.jinang@yahoo.com ) I am looking forward for your prompt response..
*
**
*Yours faithfully,
DR. DAVID JINANG*

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