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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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 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.
  • josemiguel1000k@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:16:11 -0700
Subject: FROM ; MR.JOSE MIGUEL OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION URGENT REPLY!!!


FROM ; MR.JOSE MIGUEL OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION URGENT REPLY!!!
MR.JOSE MIGUEL,
BRANCH MANAGER
MONEYCORP FINANCE AND TRUST COMPANY
MONEYCORP FINANCE HOUSE,
AVENIDA SANTOS PATRONOS, 6, 1º, ALZIRA ,
C.P. 46350 (VALENCIA) ESPANA

PLEASE SEND ALL YOUR REPLY TO MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL:
josemiguel1000k@gmail.com

("REMITTANCE OF US$38.6M MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS CONFIDENTIAL IS THE
CASE")

Attention : President / Chief Executive Officer,

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone
through your remarkable profile on the internet. Though, this medium
(Internet)has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because
it still remains the fastest, surest and most secured medium of
communication.However,this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it
should be treated as such. Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you
that this letter is not a hoax or Scam mail and I urge you to treat it with
the seriousness it deserves. I also guarantee you that this deal is hitch
free from all what you may think of. I am MR.JOSE MIGUEL, Branch Manager
with MONEYCORP FINANCE AND TRUST COMPANY ( Valencia Branch).

PROPOSITION:

I am contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that will be attached
to this Business Proposal . The Management and the Legal department of our
FINANCE COMPANY (MONEYCORP FINANCE AND TRUST COMPANY) in a recent meeting,
Recommended that the account of MRS CEPARO GRANT ROMAN, who was one of my
branch depositor, should be declared Dormant, confisticated and the
depositor's fund sent to the Bank Treasury according to Espana banking and
financial law. She died in an underground train crash in the eastern city of
Valencia as Victims of the Tuesday, 4 July 2006, Incident that befall the
Spanish , the bank is still unrelenting in its bid to contact any of the
relatives to claim This money, you can confirm through this website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5143738.stm

She is an account holder in my branch; she owns a dollar account with the
sum of US$38.6M (Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only)Which was made through Oil bunkers business in Russia,
deposited in a numbered account with my branch. In fact it happened that
since her death, the next of kin of the dollar account holder (the
brother/Sister) or whom ever that is related to her has not show up for the
claim. This is where I am interested on and this is where I want you to come
in.

SHARING ARRANGEMENTS:

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after 3 Financial years, the money will be transferred into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner,
and a Spanish Citizen cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree
that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to
the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 60 % would be for investment in your
Country as soon as the Transfer is completed.

EXECUTION OF THE PROPOSED DEAL:

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
Please include your Information as stated Below.

1. YOUR FULL NAME
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. HOME ADDRESS
4. COMAPNY NAME AND ADDRESS.

I want you to come in as the relation of the deceased MRS CEPARO GRANT
ROMAN, who has account with MONEYCORP FINANCE AND TRUST COMPANY , I will
give you the contact of the attorney, who will handle all the legal
Documentations. He will lay claims through his legal authority. He is going
to be happy to assist you. I will be the one to provide the vital documents
for the claims of the money and then Advise you exactly how we should handle
it. The whole Procedures will last only 7 working days to get the fund
retrieved successfully without trace even in future.
Yours truly,

MR.JOSE MIGUEL,
josemiguel1000k@gmail.com

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