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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • peterhar_19@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Peter Harrison <peterhar_19@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: peterharrison63@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:52:25 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GOOD DAY


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: peterhar_19@yahoo.com



- Dear friend,It is indeed with a heart of hope that I write to contact you in the context below. I am, Peter Harrison an Accounts Supervisor with a commercial Bank here in London, On Monday, 24th of July 2000, one ,Mr. Rick Rainville an American national, a property magnate, made a series of (Fixed)...Deposit, valued at £14,550,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds) for twelve calendar months in my Bank branch. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no response. After a month, I became apprehensive as his Accounting Officer hence, I sent a reminder. To my chagrin, I discovered from his company that Mr. Rick Rainville was aboard the ill-fated Air France Concorde plane..AF4590, which crashed on Monday, 24July2000 into...he..Hotelissimo.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm).As a matter of fact and on further investigation, I discovered that Late Mr. Rick Rainville did not declare any next of kin or relatives in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper work here in our Bank. Available information from the Immigration Authorities showed that Mr. Rainville was single on entry.This Fund is still in my bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever and has come forward to lay claim to it. In strict accordance with the British banking laws and at the expiration of 6 (six) years, the money will be reverted to the British...Government treasury that is, if nobody applies as the next of Kin to claim the funds. All I need from you is to play the role as next of Kin to the late man to enable us pull the fund out, remember, the Bank will work with verifiable documents, which I have. Upon acceptance of this proposal, I shall not hesitate to send to you the detailed information on how this transaction would be carried out.I have put all the necessary parameters in place before contacting you and I am open for negotiations .I assure you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate framework, as I will use my official position to secure approvals and guarantee its successful execution. Please be informed that absolute confidentiality is required as I am still under the services of the Bank though with the intention to put up my resignation by the first quarter of next year. Indicate your willingness by responding with your contact details.Best regards.Peter Harrison

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