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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:
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million pounds" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • peta_l222206@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LEMMY MR. PETA" <mrpeta.lemmy030@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: peta_l22206@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:46:37 +0430
Subject: VERY URGENT PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


*FROM MR. PETA LEMMY
DIRECTOR, INT OPERATIONS
FIRST FIRST CONSOLIDATED TRUST BANK {FDTB}
LONDON.

Please forgive my impetus as I am pressed by the situation at hand to have
contacted you thus;

First I must solicit your confidence in this letter to you, this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I
know that a proposal letter of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried due to the spam/scam mails that goes across the globe, but I am
assuring you that all will be well at the end. I contact you due to the
urgency needed, as I have been reliably aware of your discreetness and
ability in transaction of this nature.

My Name is Mr. Peta Lemmy, Director, Int Operations, First Consolidated
Trust Bank London, I came to know about you in my private search for a
reliable person to handle a confidential transaction on my behalf. l write
in respect of a foreign customer with Current A/C number: 05-6974-0006, who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of AF4590 which crashed on
Monday,31 July, 2000,including his wife and the only two children leaving
nobody to claim the money. You shall
read more news about the crash by visiting this site; **
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
*
The owner of this account Mr. Christian Eich a German and great
industrialist. Since the death of this our customer Mr. Christian Eich, I
have kept a close monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then.
Nobody has come forward to claim the money in this A/C as next of kin to the
late Mr. Christian Eich.

The total amount in the account {£9.5 Million Pounds} and it is a
domiciliary escrow bank account. It is only an insider, the account owner or
a next of kin who has information about the account that could produce the
Code or password of the deposit particulars. Also the funds can only be
released to a foreigner. I am willing to share this money with you in the
ratio of 50-50%. You shall have 50% of the funds and I shall share the rest
with my partner at the bank. I hope this is a fair sharing?

The nature of your business is not relevant for the success of this
transaction. I have taken all necessary precautions to make sure that the
transaction is 100% risk free and it is believed that this transaction will
be completed within seven working days. Please you must keep this
transaction secret at all times until you have received the fund in your
account.

If you are willing and ready to assist with this business then confirm to
the following information of yours below for further proceedings. Email: **
{peta_l222206@hotmail.com* <{peta_l222206@hotmail.com>*}

Full Name..........................
Contact Address....................
Date of Birth......................
Occupation.........................
Mobile phone.......................
Fax................................

I wait for your urgent response.

Thanks And Best Regards.
Peta Lemmy.*

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