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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.william Keegan" <willykeegan@gmail.com>
Reply-To: willykg22@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:13:34 +0100
Subject: Greetings


Attn:
{RE: TRANSFER OF US$48.223 MILLION} FORTY EIGHT MILLION TWO HUNDRED & TWENTY
THREE THOUSAND U.S(DOLLARS ONLY TO YOUR ACCOUNT} [STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL]

I am Dr. Williiam Keegan, the operational manager in account management
section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of the prime banks here
in South Africa. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank
who perished on EGYPTIAN Boeing 737 PLANE CRASH into the red sea with the
whole passengers on board. There is an account opened in this bank by this
late diamond and oil magnet who died without a written or oral WILL
attatched to the account. Since his death, I personally has watched to see
the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his
funds and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning
it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the
manager of his company here in South Africa.

The total amount involved is 48,223,000.00 USD. [Forty eight million, two
hundred and twenty three thousand United States Dollar]. We wish to start
the first transfer with $20,000,000.00[Twenty million].and upon successful
transaction without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for
the transfer of the remaining balance to your account. THIS TRANSACTION IS
100% RISK FREE provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality. Furthermore, your area of specialization or country of
origin is not a hindrance to the successful execution ofthis transaction.We
are presently affected by the South Africa civil service code of conduct
laws that prohibits civil servants from operating private foreign accounts.
I have secretly discussed this matter with the manager of the bank who I
must involve in order to have a smooth and a successful transfer of the fund
to any foreign bank account which you are going to norminate.On this note, I
want you to act as the foreign beneficiary of the fund from the deceased by
providing your bank account where the fund will be transferred for immediate
investment on any viable project as no one has come up to be the next of
kin.

The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than 2 years
without claim hence the money will be recalled to the government treasury as
unclaimed after this long period of domancy. In view of this I got your
contact through my personal search to see if you can assist by providing
your safe bank account for the transfer or find a reliable person who will
be capable of receiving such amount in his or her personal account. At the
conclussion of the transfer 60% of the fund will be for me, I will give you
30% of the total transfer sum, 5% for charity both in Africa and in your
country while the remaining 5% will be set aside to settle expenses both
parties might incured during the transfer process. Upon the receipt of your
reply, I will send to you a detailed information about the transaction.I
will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is100% risk and
trouble free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities
for fund transfercan be finalized within 7 to 9 banking days, after you
apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund from the deceased.

Kindly send me an e-mail inorder to know action and stand, inorder to have
this fund transfer toyour account immediately. Have a nice day as I entrust
thistransfer into your hands. Let me hear from you.
Urgently.

Yours faithfully,
Dr.William

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