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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us 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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (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.
  • davidephraim01@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: David Ephraim <david_ephraim3@msn.com>
Reply-To: <davidephraim@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:51:34 +0000
Subject: Urgent







>From The Desk Of David Ephraim.
Bill and Exchange Manager
CAJA DE FORTUNA BANK (FOREIGN PAYMENT AND PROCEESING CENTRE)
Calle Vizcaya 2 Atocha,28045 Madrid Spain


ATTN.

With
due respect and humility, I write to you this proposal.I am the Manager
of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of Caja De
Fortuna Banco in Madrid. I am writing following the impressive
information about you, l got your contact in my quest for a reliabe and
capable person to assist me in this deal.

Though I know that a
business of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive, but I am
assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have
decided to contact you by email due to the urgency of this "deal", as
we have been reliably informed of your honesty and ability in a
transaction of this nature.

In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$30m dollars (THIRTY Million US dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS
SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family
in July 2000 in a plane crash.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm


About
his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies
for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines and policies but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
ugly plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I have decided to make this businness proposal
to you to transact this DEAL with you and to act as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming forth and l dont want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.

According to our Banking policies
and guideline here which stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years,the money will automatically be transfered
into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. My request for a foreigner to
ac t as next of kin in this business is by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and a citizen of this country cannot stand or put
claims as next of kin to a foreigner. l agreed to offer 30% of the
total fund to you, for your assistance, to act as the next of Kin to
the foreigner,to provide account, 10% will be for reimbursement of any
expenses incured during the curse of the transaction.

There
after, I and my family will visit your country for disbursement and for
investment in your country. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer
of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as
relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your
bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easier
and effective
communication and location where the money will be
transfer. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made
for the transfer.

Let truth and honesty be our watchword in this transaction while I look forward to receiving your immediate response.


Yours faithfully,
David Ephraim


E-mail: davidephraim01@gmail.com

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