419 scam: Ken Anderson <mr.ken05@msn.com> I WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU RIGHT AWAY

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "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.
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.
- k_anderson@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Ken Anderson <mr.ken05@msn.com>
Reply-To: <k_anderson@sify.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:12:56 +0000
Subject: I WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU RIGHT AWAY

>From Mr.Ken Anderson,
UBS Fund Director, Zurich,
Switzerland.
Dear,

TRANSFER OF US$48.559 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

My name is Ken Anderson. I work with Union Bank of Switzerland,UBS, as the Fund director here in Zurich, Switzerland.

I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account and if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET. I need strong Assurance that you will never ever let me down if I transfer this money to your account as the rightful beneficiary of the fund from the deceased.

During the course of my duty as the Fund director to the above bank, I discovered a dormant account belonging to Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who on 14 Feb 2005 killed in an apparent assassination in west Beirut.

The late Mr.Rafik Hariri left in the bank the sum of US$48.559 Million (Forty Eight Million Five Hundred And Fifty Nine Thousand U.S Dollars Only). Since his death in 2005 nobody have or will ever come to claim the fund because no other person knows about the existence of this fund because he secretly placed this fund in this account for investment in owned energy Construction Company in Saudi Arabia.

I also discovered that Mr. Rafik Hariri left no document? Will? Or next of kin information in his records with the bank. Now, I want to use my position in the bank to transfer this money to your country for investment because the fund will be recovered to Switzerland government treasury if it remain UNCLAIMED.

At the conclussion of this transaction, I will take 70% wit my partner who is a top manager with the bank while you will take 30% but you must assure me that you are capable to handle large or small amount on trust and can keep secret.

Finally and most importantly, I want to re-assure you that this business is risk-free. You can send me an empty account for the fund transfer, provided that the account is capable/active to receive incoming funds.

Mr.Ken Anderson,
UBS Fund Director, Zurich,
Switzerland
E-MAIL ADDRESS: < k_anderson@sify.com >

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