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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:
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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 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.
  • cheung11pui@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "CHEUNG PUI" <cheungpui476@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:09:53 +0000
Subject: Kind Regards.

Hang Seng Bank Ltd
Sai Wan Ho Branch
171 Shaukiwan Road
Hong Kong.
Good Day,

Although, I do not know you in person, I have received your contact via,
personal search while

seeking a reliable individual to assist me in this pending transaction.
It became necessary for me to seek your assistance as i Want you to
Assist in investing my share of the money in your Country.
Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr. Cheung Pui director of
operations of the Hang Seng

Bank Ltd. I have an
Obscured business suggestion for you.
Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Major Fadi Basem who was with the
Iraqi forces and also

business man made a
Numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of Twenty Four
million Five Hundred

Thousand United State
Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him,
even during the war

early this year. Again after the war another notification was sent and still
no response came

from him. We later find out that the Major and his family had been killed
during the war in bomb

blast that hit their home.
After further investigation it was also discovered that Major Fadi Basem did
not declare any next

of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit.
And he also confided

in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his
deposit in my bank. So,

Twenty Four millions Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still
lying in my bank and no

one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that
according to the laws of my

country at the expiration 3 years the funds will revert to the ownership of
the Hong Kong

Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my
suggestion to you is

that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Major
Fadi Basem so that you

will be able to receive his funds.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE:
I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall
come out successful. I

have contacted an
Attorney that will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as
the next of kin to

Major Fadi Basem , all That is required from you at this stage is for you to
provide me with your

Full Names and Address so that the attorney can commence his job. After you
have been made the

next of kin, the attorney will also fill in for claims on your behalf and
secure the necessary

approval and letter of probate in your favor for the move of the funds to an
account that will be

provided by you.
There is no risk involved at all in the matter as we are going to adopt a
legalized method and

the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents. Please endeavor to
observe utmost

discretion in all matters concerning this issue. Once the funds have been
transferred to your

nominated bank account we shall negotiate our sharing percentage and agreed
on it.
Should you be interested please send me your full names and current
residential address and I

will prefers you to reach me on the email address below (
cheung11pui@excite.com ) and finally

after that i shall provide you with more details of this operation.
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
Note that the sharing rate as soon as this transaction is concluded is 30%
for you, 60% for me

and the remaining 10% for any expenses we both incur in the process of this
transaction, If this

is okay by you, Contact me only via this my confidential email box . As soon
as I get an update

from you I shall send you our affiliate bank detals and also how you are to
contact HSBC BANK In

the Uk for us to proceed further.
Kind Regards,
Mr. Cheung Pui
EMAIL: ( cheung11pui@excite.com )

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