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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)
• 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.
  • +447031918073 (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.
  • berlinder3030@fastermail.com
  • berlinder3030@fastermail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "berlinder edwards5" <berlinder2@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:37:49 +0000
Subject: SINCERE REQUEST !!!!

SINCERE REQUEST !!!!


MRs, Berlinder Edwards

DIRECTOR :CUMBERLAND VALLEY NATIONAL BANK,

LONDON UNITED KINDOM

TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER: +447031918073

OR SEND ALL REPLY TO MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL: berlinder3030@fastermail.com

Dear Sir/Madam

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having
gone through your remarkable profile on the internet.Though, this
medium
(Internet)has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it
because it still remains the fastest,surest and most secured medium of
communication .

However,this correspondence is unofficial and private,and it should be
treated as such. I also guarantee you that this deal is hitch free from
all what you may think of.I am Berlinder Edwards, DIRECTOR/CEO CUMBERLAND
VALLEY NATIONAL BANK LONDON. I am contacting you based on Trust and
Confidentiality that will be attached to this deal. The Management and
the
Legal department of our BANK (CUMBERLAND VALLEY NATIONAL BANK LONDON)
in a
recent meeting Last Week,Recommended that the account of SUSAN LEVY,
53,
from Cuffley, Hertfordshire, who was one of my branch depositor, should
be
declared Dormant,confisticated and the depositor's fund sent to the
Bank
Treasury according to CUMBERLAND VALLEY NATIONAL Banking and financial
law. She died in Bomb Blast in London, Terrorist Attacks on July 7TH
2005.Incident that befall the UNITED KINGDOM,the bank is still
unrelenting in it's bid to contact any of the relatives to claim
This money,you can confirm through this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4668245.stm

She is an account holder in my branch, She owns a dollar account with
the
sum of US$18.6M ( Eighteen Million, Six Hundred Thousand United
States
Dollars Only) deposited in a numbered account with the account.In fact
it
happened that since her death, the next of kin of the dollar account
older(the brother) or whom ever that is related to her has not show up
for
the claim. This is where I am interested on and his is where I want
you
to come in. I want you to come in as the relation of the
deceased,I will give you the contact of the attorney, you will have
to
write to him Telling him you are a relation to the deceased and that
you
have found out that SUSAN LEVY has account with CUMBERLAND VALLEY
NATIONAL BANK LONDON. which you wants to lay claims through his legal
authority.

He is going to be happy to assist you. I will be the one to provide the
vital documents for the claims of the money and then advise you
exactly
how we should handle it.Please include your telephone/fax number/
Home
Address when replying this mail and I will give you more information as
soon as you indicate your willingness to assist in this transaction.
We
will use our positions to get all internal documentations to back up
the
claims .The whole Procedures will last only 7 working days to get the
fund
retrieved successfully Without trace even in future.

Please need the following:

1.YOUR FULL NAME

2.PHONE AND FAX NUMBER

3.HOME ADDRESS

4.COMAPNY NAME AND ADDRESS.

After successful conclussion of this transaction, we shall share the
money 60-40.

Yours truly,
MRs, Berlinder Edwards
berlinder3030@fastermail.com

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