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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:
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "account opening form" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "dormant account" (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.
  • andrewkybaileyy@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "andrew bailey" <andde@fastwebmail.it>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:38:13 +0100
Subject: BANK OF ENGLAND


Good day,

My name is Andrew Bailey working with the bank of ENGLAND (
www.bankofengland.co.uk ) United Kingdom. I found your address through my
countries international Web directory.
During our last meeting and examination of the bank accounts here in the
United Kingdom, my department found a dormant account with an enormous sum
of US$ 8,300,000.00 (eight million three hundred thousand US dollar) which
was deposited
by late Mr. Williams from US.

Before his death he transferred the sum of US$8,300,000.00 (eight million
three
hundred thousand US dollar) with the bank of England United Kingdom.
was his account officer and when he was filling his accounting opening
form, He did
not indicate any next of kin, After he died his account was dormant, And
after Three
years of any dormant account, the funds will be release to his or her next
of kin . The
Bank Authority have decided the release the funds to his next of kin, I am
the only person
Who know that he did not indicate any next of kin when he was filling his
account opening
Form ………I want you to stand as next of kin to claim these funds.
Because of our financial house regulations only one foreigner can stand as
next relatives or next of kin.
The request of a foreigner as a next of kin is base on the fact that the
depositor was a foreigner and some body in the United Kingdom can not stand
as
the next of kin.
On behalf of my colleagues, I need your permission as the next relatives
or
next of kin of our deceased customer, so that the funds can be released and

transferred to your account.

We need a foreign account, which could not be noticeable in the time of the

transfer. I still work at the Bank Of England and that's the actual reason
that I need a second party or person, to stand and work with me and apply
to
the bank here in the United Kingdom as the next of kin.
At the end of this transaction, I want you to put aside 50% for me
and the rest 50% for yourself for standing as the next of kin and
also providing a reliable account.

Further information will be provided upon the receipt of your prompt
response
and I shall give you a call for further clarification. We do not have too
much
time and I want you to know that there is no risk involved and I fear that
without your assistance everything will be lost.

Because of the privacy kindly reply to my private
email address;(andrewkybaileyy@yahoo.com.hk)

Thanks.

Best regards,
Andrew Bailey

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