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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)
  • "necessary legal documents" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • mrdanielbello@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Daniel Bello <mrdanielbello@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bellod28@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ACT ACCORDINGLY


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrdanielbello@yahoo.com



- Dear Sir/Madam,Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events.Well, I am Dr Daniel Bello, a BANKER. I am the Personal Accountant to Mr. Steve King , who used to BANK with our Bank in ENGLAND. On the 4th of April 2005,he died on a HEART ATTACK.Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client in a Finance Company. Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased deposited the US $10.5Million (Ten Million,Five Hundred United St!
ates Dollars only). Consequently, this Finance House issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to claim the US $10.5 Million (Ten Million,Five Hundred United States Dollars only) in their custody within the next ten official working days.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the fund will be transferred to your account by the Finance House.Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet with you for the disbursement of the fund, which I suggest that the sharing ratio should be 60% for me and 30% for you, the remaining 10% will be for to take care of expenses. I have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we will make with the Finance House.All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legiti!
mate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.Please
send me the following informations.YOUR FULL NAME,YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS,YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBER,YOUR AGE,SEX AND MARITAL STATUS AND YOUR OCCUPATION.

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