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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:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • ",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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447023092770 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Nicholas Lee" <ddll39@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mrnike@mail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:09:14 +0000
Subject: From: Mr. Nicholas Lee........



From: Mr. Nicholas Lee
#31 Council of Churches
P O Box 62098 Marshalltown
2107 United Kingdom
Tel"+447023092770

RE-TRANSFER OF £52,954,000.00 {Fifty Two Million Nine Hundred And Fifty Four
Thousand British Pounds Sterling}

Good day.

I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a
relationship. I am Mr. Nicholas Lee, the personal account officer to the great
late
diseased who has an account in one of the top banks here in London, United
Kingdom.

The account was opened in 2002 and he died in 2004 without a written or oral
WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money
is
floating, and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
for
nothing, and Government of United Kingdom will confiscate the funds for their
personal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen being
that this is a great opportunity in my life.

My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund
{£52,954,000.00} from a Cooperate Bank here in UK to an oversea account.
First,
I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.

This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and
have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of
this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said
amount into your safe account for onward investment.

You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank
account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of
this
important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never
let
me down in future because this business is my life.

The owner of this account is a foreigner 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 the company. My investigation through the
National immigration department and Ministries here proved to me as well that
he
was single as at the time of his entry into the United Kingdom. As a matter of
fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment.

Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of the bank
will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I
will give to you immediately, We will start the first transfer with Thirty two
million {£32,000,000.00}.

Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of {£20, 954,000.00} to your
account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved to a local person here due to law in United Kingdom.

If you are interested, please forward the following information as below:

{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,
{2} Bank Name:............ ..........
{3} Bank Address.....................
{4} Account No:......................
{5} Swift Code...{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name: ....................
{7} Your telephone Number.both Home, Office &
Cell/Mobile and fax Numbers.........................
{8} Your Occupation..............
{9} Your Valid ID ...................

Upon the receipt of the above details, payment will be activated by the feeding
of your data into payment system, followed by a signal that will be sent to the
paying bank to remit the funds into your nominated bank account within 7
official working days of receipt of the above information.

Best Regards,
Mr. Nicholas Lee.

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