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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:
  • "million pounds" (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)
• 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.
  • +447035934245 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: BILL HEINZ <mrbillheinz_001@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mrbillheinze22@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:37:07 +0000
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU?



Dear Beloved Friend,

Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics.I will first introduce myself as Mr. Bill Heinz, currently promoted to an Auditor General in one of the prime banks herein London , England .

During the course of our auditing last month, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in the year 1999, With holding balance of £15,000,000 (Fifteen Million Pounds Sterling) and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account, after going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the said account, a resident of Alaska State, named John Shumejda died on the 4th of January 2002 in a plane crash in Birmingham;for details on the crash you can view this on CNN website.http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane/
Since then, nobody has done anything as regards to claiming of this money, as he has no family member that has any knowledge as regards to the existence of either the account or the funds and my investigation proved to me as well that the account is a secret account and also Information from the National Immigration also states that he was single on entry into the UK.

I have confidently discussed this issue with some of the bank officials that knows about this money and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. We therefore propose to do this business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the deceased and the funds will be released to you after necessary processes have been followed, you will be giving 40% of the money at end of the deal.
PLEASE THIS PROPOSAL IS MORE THAN SECRET! AND DESERVES URGENT ATTENTION.
On Your interest let me hear from you.
Best regards and get back to me using my private Tel: +44 7035934245,

Warm Regards,
Mr. Bill Heinz

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