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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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.
  • pet_c2000@mixmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Peter Chang" <pet_c2000g@mixmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: pet_c2000@mixmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:11:19 +0000
Subject: Good Day.

Dr.Peter Chang
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

ATTN: Sir/Madam,

TRANSFER OF ($15,300.000.00 USD} FIFTEEN MILLION THREE HUNRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS.

I want to transfer ($15,300.000.00 USD)Fifteen Million Three Hundred United States
Dollars from a Bank here in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.to oversea account. First, I must
solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue of it's nature as being
utterly confidential.I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to
prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude.I solicit your assistance to enable us
transfer the said amount into your safe account for unward investment.You can either
provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to
receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as
you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and
believing that you will never let me down either now or in future.

I am Dr.Peter Chang a personal account officer to a great late INDUSTRIALIST who
has an account in one of the top banks here in Malaysia. The account was opened in
1998 and he died in the year 2000 without a written or oral WILL and since then nobody
has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing since the bank has been sold on
Wednesday, 19 March 2005 to another bank and the management of the bank is now
ready to release the fund to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account
before fully handing over the management to the new bank.The owner of this account is
a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary . My investigation through the National immigration
department proved to me as well that he was single as at the point of his entry int
Malaysia.

The amount in this account is USD$15.3 Million ( Fiteen Million Three Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars )only.As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad
for investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of
the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I
will give you mmediately, if you are interested to do this business with me.

There is no risk to this business. With my position and my personal contact with the
manager of the bank,the money can be transferred to any account you can provide
with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country
for sharing.We will start the first transfer with Six Million [$6,000.000]. Upon successful
transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of
the remaining balance of $9.3 Million to your account. I am only contacting you as a
foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but can
only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account
which I will provide to you.So you should provide me with your correct account detail
where you will like the fund to be transferred or you can set up a new account for the
transfer even an empty account is ok.

At the conclussion of the transfer you will take 20% for your honest committment and
positive contributions to enhance that the transaction succeeds,and the remaining
80% for me which I intend to invest in any area you deem profitable.

As soon as I hear from you,and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me
down once the fund goes into your account I will then start to process the transfer
of the fund to your account without further delay.

If interested contact me urgently for further details.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr.Peter Chang
Email:pet_c2000@mixmail.com

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