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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031946590 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • barkev111@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "barkev hagopian" <barkev111@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:48:20 -0700
Subject: Urgent

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Mr.Bartev Hagopian, Chief Consultant to Famish Consultants & Co, 45
Parklane, London DT6 8PL. I have urgent and very confidential business
proposition for you.A British Oil consultant/contractor with the Singapore
Solid Minerals Corporation, {Mr. Wilson H. Diamond},now deceased, made a
numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at
US$10,750,000.00 (Ten Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United
States Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification
to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After a month, the National Bank here in the United Kingdom sent a reminder
and it was finally discovered from his contract employers, the Singapore
Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr. Wilson H. Diamond died in a plane crash
along with his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson & Sarah Diamond in air crash.
Since we got this information about his death. On further investigation, it
was discovered that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace
his next of kin was fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Diamond did
not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including
his Bank Deposit paper work in my Bank. This sum of US$10,750,000.00 is
still sitting in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the
principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to
claim it. According to Banking Laws of the United Kingdom, at the expiration
of 5 (five) years, which is this year, the money
will revert to the ownership of the Government if nobody applies to claim
the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner
to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Diamond so that the fruits of this old
man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government
officials.
This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and
address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and
affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ
the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to
obtain the necessary documents in your favor for the transfer. A bank
account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate
the transfer of this money to you as
the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your account for us
to share in the ratio of 70% for me and 30% for you.
There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be
done by the attorney and my position as the Branch Manager Guarantees the
successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please
reply immediately via the private email address below. Upon your response, I
shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will
help you understand the transaction. Please send me your confidential
telephone and fax numbers
for easy communication. Do ensure to observe utmost confidentiality, and be
rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us
because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.
Do endeavour to contact me on this email address as my other private email
address: barkev111@yahoo.co.uk
Await your reply
Best Regards
Bartev Hagopian
Tel:+44 7031946590

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