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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:
  • "dormant account" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: Mr.Paul Gibson <pystr_gdgt16@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 23:26:44 +0000
Subject: Greetings To You



Greetings To You
#31 Council of Churches
P O Box 62098 Marshalltown
2107 United Kingdom

Business Proposal

How are you doing today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I know that this letter will come to you as a suprise as we don't know ourselves before,but be rest assured that it is real and a genuine business.
My name is Mr.PAUL Gibson,I am an external auditor of a well known Bank here in the United Kingdom {Bank Of Scotland}My proposal is that, during our last auditing I discovered a dormant account, with a balance of £22,759,000.00 (Twenty Two Million Seven Hundred Fifty Nine Thousand Pounds Sterling). From my investigation, the owner of the said account, a foreigner by name Mr.John Shumejda.

After going into deeply investigation I found out that Mr.John Shumejda died on the 4th of January 2002 in a plane crash. For more details visit:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1742404.stm Upon the successful transfer of the fund to your account, you will be given 50% of the total amount while 50% will be for me.

If you are interested, kindly get back to me as soon as possible so I can advice you on how to proceed for the successful transfer of the Fund in your account without any suspicious.

Warm Regards,
Mr.PAUL Gibson

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