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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:
  • "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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "observe utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "your humble assistance" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • horvath.josef529@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: anna bern <annabern@web.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:23:43 +0200
Subject: I am Mr. Josef Horvath


I am Mr. Josef Horvath, Senior Staff, with a Bank here in Madrid- Spain . =
I got your contact while searching for a reliable someone to contact for t=
his transaction in regards to a business transfer for a huge sum of money =
in a dormant account. I need your assistance to transfer to overseas Nine =
Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only (US$9,=
550.000.00).=20

=20

I am seeking your humble assistance to provide either an existing bank acc=
ount or set up a new Bank account to receive this fund, even an empty acco=
unt can serve this purpose, or you help to seek an honest and, reliable bu=
sinessman who can assist us. Though I know that a transaction of this magn=
itude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you th=
at this transaction is being handled by me and my colleagues, who are also=
departmental heads in the same bank. We decided to contact you due to the=
urgency of this transaction.=20

=20

During the course of our auditing we discovered a floating fund in a domic=
iliary account opened in the bank in 2000 and since 2004 nobody has operat=
ed on this account, after going through some old files in the records we d=
iscovered that the owner of the account who is a foreigner died in Madrid =
Bombing of 11th of March 2004,without any traceable next of kin hence the =
dormant nature of the account and if nobody come to claim this funds it wi=
ll be re- channel to government coffers as unclaimed funds.=20

=20

I am only contacting you as a foreigner that bears the same last name with=
the depositor because this money cannot be approved for a local account a=
s the depositor is a foreigner, the fund can only be approved to a foreign=
er or into a foreign account.. I need your full co-operation to make this =
project a success, There is no risk at all, the paperwork for this transac=
tion will be done by an attorney and my position guarantees the successful=
execution of this transaction. If you are interested and know that you wi=
ll not sit on this money after its successful transfer to you, please repl=
y immediately and upon your response, I shall provide you with more detail=
s on what to do. Please observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured=
that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us.=20

=20

Upon your response I will inform you on the steps ahead and your compensat=
ion for providing an account for this transaction. If you find yourself ca=
pable of working with me, contact me only through the telephone numbers an=
d email address below.=20

=20

Please observe this instruction with the utmost care. I send you this lett=
er not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences may be, but I=
know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success a=
nd riches never come easy or on a platter of gold.=20



If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the=
trust I have bestowed in you, I await your swift response via my personal=
mail *horvath.josef529@gmail.com [mailto:horvath.josef529@gmail.com] *=20

=20

Yours faithfully,=20



Mr. Josef Horvath=20


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