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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (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 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)
• 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.
  • mrjimkan11@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Jimmy Kannah" <jimkan11@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: jimmykah@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:07:25 +0200
Subject: Acknowledge Asap " Very Important Please"


Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Mr. Jimmy Kannah; I know this proposal will come to you as a
surprise because we have not met before either physically or through any
correspondence. I have no doubt in your ability to handle this proposal
involving huge sum of money.

THE SUBJECT:



A Foreign Customer ( German property magnate -Andreas Schranner) who died
along with his entire family on 25th day of July 2000 in a plane crash
shortly after the Concorde plane took off from Paris' Charles de Gaulle
Airport in France, has substantial amount of US$41.7M {FORTY ONE MILLION
SEEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY} deposited in our Finance
House. For more information on Mr. Andreas Schranner's death,Check BBC News
on--http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Since his death, as
his Financial consultant, I have made frantic efforts to locate any of his
relative, because of his deposit with Finance House.



Till date nobody has showed up to lay claim of his deposit. The Finance
House guidelines/ laws here in my Country stipulates that if any customer's
account remains unserviceable or dormant, and unclaimed after seven years,
the amount will be transferred into the Finance House treasury account with
the Finance Firm of my country for government use. As a Financial
Consultant, I know what happens to such funds, the Executive Directors, the
Chairman of the Board of Directors of this Finance Houses and top Government
officials will share it amongst themselves and send down memos to us for
reconciliation of the deceased account.

THE PROPOSAL:

My request of a foreigner in this business is occasioned by the fact that an
Indigene of My Country cannot stand as beneficiary to a deceased foreigner.
It is therefore on this premise that I seek your cooperation to stand as a
relative to Late Mr.Andreas Schranner. As an Insider it is easy for both of
us to provide all relevant Information / documents that will authenticate
the Claims of this money in your favour as the only surviving relative to
the late Mr. Andreas Schranner.



Note that your Physical presence WILL be needed at the Finance House, I will
Guide you on the Steps to take. Our Finance Firm will only ask for
verifiable Documents which we both shall provide.In all Fairness I am
willing to share the money with you on an agreed Terms. For your
Information, I have done my home work very well, before embarking on the
process of moving this fund out of the Finance House through a beneficiary
to the Late Andreas Schranner.



The Funds is much that no right thinking person can afford to let such
opportunity pass him by. If you are ready to execute this project with me,
provide me immediately with your full contact details by e-mail:
mrjimkan11@gmail.com



Your Full name:........................
Full address:..........................
Telephone number:......................
Fax number:............................
Occupation:............................
A photocopy of your international passport.



Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation and May God bless you always.

Best Regards,
Mr.Jimmy Kannah

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