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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • dinther300@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dinther Helmut Udo"<dinther500@ymail.com>
Reply-To: <dinther4@sify.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:59:23 +0300
Subject: Great opportunity.

Mr. Dinther Helmut Udo

Valiant Privat Bank AG

Postfach,

3001 Bern,

Switzerland.

Confidential Tel  : +870-764107753

Confidential Fax  : +870-764107751

Email: dinther300@sify.com

 

Hello,

 

I am contacting you on a business transaction of a huge sum of money

from a deceased account, though I know a transaction of this magnitude

will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I’m assuring you that

all will be well at the end of the day and this is why am contacting

you due to the urgency of this transaction.

 

We discovered an abandoned sum of (Seven million five hundred

Thousand United States dollars) in an account that belongs to one of

Our foreign customer who died along side with his entire family, and ever

Since his death none of his next of kin or relations has come forward

to lay claims for this money as his heir.

 

We cannot release the funds from his account unless someone applies for

Claim as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated on our banking

Guidelines. And upon this discovery we now seek your permission to have

you stand as a next of kin to the deceased in which all documentations

Will be carefully worked out by us for the (Seven million five hundred

Thousand United States dollars) to be released in your favour as the

Beneficiary’s/next of kin to the deceased. And It may interest you to

know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to

locate any of the deceased beneficiary.

 

Kindly acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our

mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;

 

1. Beneficiary name and contact address.

2. Direct telephone, fax and Mobile numbers.

3. Date of birth and occupation.

 

These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate

departments and authorities for necessary approvals for the release of

the funds in your favour, before the transfer can be made to you. And we

will be compensating you with thirty percent of the total funds on final

conclusion of this project, while the rest will be for us and for

investment purposes. And If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not

take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you.

 

NB: If you are willing to assist me, including the information's i have

requested from you, call me on my confidential Tel:  +870-764107753.

For further details on what to do next.

 

Please Respond to Email: dinther300@sify.com

 

I await your response and call.

 

Regards,

 

Mr. Dinther Helmut Udo.

 

Confidential Tel  : +870-764107753

Confidential Fax  : +870-764107751

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