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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "30% for you " (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • guagbei@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:48:07 -0500
Subject: I WILL APPRECIATE YOUR REPLY

FROM: Mr. HE Guangbei.
(VICE CHAIRMAN & EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Bank of China Limited
Hong Kong

YOUR ATTENTION

You might be apprehensive because you do not know me but I have a business
proposal of mutual interest to share with you. Let me start by introducing
myself. I am Mr.HE Guangbei, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive with overall
responsibility for the
business and operations of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited ("BOCHK").

I have a Business suggestion for you. In October, 2002, my late client
Ghazi Musa Hassan, an Iraqi Crude oil merchant made a numbered fixed deposit
of Thirty million,
Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$30,500,000.00) only in my
branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war
(U.S and Iraqi war), Five years ago (2003). Again after the war another
notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later found
out that Ghazi Musa Hassan, and his family had been killed during the war in
a bomb blast that hit his home at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well
was. After further investigation it was also discovered that Ghazi Musa
Hassan did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the
paper work of his bank deposit and he also confided in me the last time he
was in my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So,
Thirty million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars are still lying in
my bank and no one will ever come forward to
claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my
country at the expiration six {6} years the funds will revert to the
ownership of the Hong Kong government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a
foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Ghazi
Musa Hassan so that you will be able to receive his funds.

MODALITIES:
I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to instruct
HANG SENG BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving
relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with
you in the ratio of 70% for me, 30% for you but this can be subjected to
further negotiations. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin
and have them release the deposit to you. I would have gone ahead to ask
the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my
involvement in claiming the deposit. I assure you that I could have the
deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank of
the final closing of the file relating to Ghazi Musa Hassan I will then
officially communicate with my Bank and
instruct them to release the deposit to you. with these, all is done.
Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this
issue, I send you this mail not
without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within
me that nothing ventured is nothing gained ,that success and riches never
come easy or
on a platter of gold. Please observe this instruction religiously. Should
you be interested please send me your,

1, Full Names,
2, Private Phone Number,
3, Current Residential Address and Country,


And I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below and
finally after that I shall furnish you with more information's about this
project. Your earliest response to this letter through my private email
address: will be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Mr. HE Guangbei.
Email; guagbei@yahoo.com.hk

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