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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "international 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 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.
  • mrleerobert@webmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR LEE ROBERT" <leerobert01@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: mrrobertlee@webmail.co.za
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:50:24 +0100
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL FOR YOU FROM HONG- KONG


Greetings!

URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL FOR YOU FROM HONG- KONG

It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you
do not know me, Please forgive this unusual manner to contact you, but this
particular letter/email is of exceptional and very private nature, as by
virtue of my vantage position in Hang Seng Bank Ltd -Hong Kong i have a
lucrative business proposal of mutual interest to share with you. There is
no way for me to know whether I will be properly understood, but it is my
duty to write and reach out to you, TRUSTING that you will give this
proposal a positive consideration.

I am Mr. Lee Robert a South Korean, 59 years old and happily married with
children, and I am a Director of Hang Seng Bank Ltd, in charge of the
International Remittance department. I will need you to assist me in
executing a business project from our bank worth US$25.5 Million. These
funds were deposited with our bank by a customer of our bank who is a
national {citizen} of your country, who unfortunately died in the December
2004 Asia Tsunami disaster.

For more on this natural disaster click on these links:-


http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4530000/newsid_4537600/4537601.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/19/tsunami.bush.clinton/index.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Tsunami-survivors-face-disease-starvation/2004/12/28/1103996558253.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/eye/andaman-us.htm


The deceased account has been declared dormant since 2006 and these funds
will be confiscated/declared unserviceable and turned over to the Hong Kong
government if the deceased business associates or next-of-kin did not claim
this money; since all efforts to trace any living relative of the deceased
proved abortive, I have decided that I will have you claim this money as the
deceased business associate/or next-of-kin, since you are from the same
country and perhaps have some similarities in certain areas. Everything
concerning this transaction shall be LEGALLY done without hitch, as I was
the deceased account Officer and all the relevant documents of this deposit
were kept under my care.

Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this
issue, as I hope that you are a sincere,honest,matured person and above all
TRUSTWORTHY. Once the funds have been successfully transferred into your
account, we shall share it in a ratio of 30% for you, 65% for me and my
associates in the bank and the reminder 5% to take care of contingencies.

I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below :{
mrleerobert@webmail.co.za) and finally after that I shall furnish you with
more information about this operation. I am counting on your anticipated
co-operation for a successful and hitch free business transaction between
us, that will be mutually beneficial, for a start oblige me these
information:-

1. Your Full name{s}:-
2.Current contact address:-

3. Your present Occupation: -
4.Your age:-

5. Contact phone numbers {Office and Mobile {cell}:-

Please if you are not interested delete this email and do not hurt me
because I am putting my career and the life of my family at stake with
this venture. Although nothing ventured is nothing gained, as it is said,
the taste of the pudding is in the eating, do give this proposal SERIOUS AND
POSITIVE CONSIDERATION.

Your earliest response to this letter will be highly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Mr. Lee Robert
Hang Seng Bank Limited
Hong Kong.{Asia}
Email:- mrleerobert@webmail.co.za

PS:---PLEASE SEND YOUR REPLY TO US STRICTLY THROUGH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS FOR
SECURITY/PRIVACY REASONS:-- mrleerobert@webmail.co.za

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