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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "foreign remittance department" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "DR. A.M" <ebmayalo1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:28:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL


Dr. AYALO MBE
ACCOUNTING/ AUDITING UNIT
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
RESERVE BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA

TREAT WITH UTMOST CONFIDENTIALITY

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

Got to know of you in search for a reputable and reliable person to assist me in an urgent need requiring utmost trust and confidentiality.
I am Dr. AYALOMBE in charge of Bills and Exchange under foreign remittance department, Reserve Bank of South Africa. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of US$38.5M that belongs to one of our foreign customer MR. WILLIAM KNUDSON, 53, who died in Alaska flight 261 which crashed on the 31st Jan 2000.
He helped found Inland Business Systems, a business machines company, in 1977. Traveling with his partner, Bradley Long, 39, of Sacramento, California. The two were returning home after visiting the bed and breakfast inn they owned in Puerto Vallarta and from my inquiries he has no wife or children. Confirm this story at the web site below:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/


Do send your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. We are going to have a binding agreement so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice where the fund will be safe and I will fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments.
To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return response of your full information and account details.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. AYALO MBE
{RESERVE BANKS OF SOUTH AFRICA}





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