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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • georgehsbc@latinmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sir. Howard George" <sir.howard1888@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: howardhsbc@latinmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:55:20 +0000
Subject: Contact Me!

Sir. Howard George
Head of Investigation Department,
HSBC Bank Plc.
London, SW17 0SP
England.
Private E-mail: georgehsbc@latinmail.com

Dear Friend,

SUBJECT: BENEFICIARY SUM OF 30 MILLION POUNDS STERLING GB.

I am seeking for your co-operation to present you to my bank as the next of
kin/will beneficiary to Mrs.Sigrid Fassnacht, a foreign contractor from
Cologne, Germany who died on a plane crash on July 25th 2000 with her
husband Rudi Fassnacht. Her husband and their two children also perished in
the air France Concorde New York bound flight; please click the link below
for verification.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Before her death she was a contractor to British National Petroleum
Co-operation (BNPC) and has a bank balance with my bank to the tune of (30
million pounds sterling GB) which will be paid to you as her next of
kin/will beneficiary. For your information, I am the Head of Investigation
Department with HSBC Bank Plc London.

The board of directors of HSBC Bank Plc which I am also a member, mandated
me to look for any known relation of Mrs.Sigrid Fassnacht, since after her
death. However, all my efforts traces abortive, that is the main reason I am
writing you this to ask for your co-operation for us to claim this money
because it will amount to injustice if I do not take this decisive step to
secure this deposit and invest it, because if nobody comes forward to claim
the fund it will be forfeited to the government, based on that I have
contacted you to assist me in making this transaction a reality.

I only have to approve you as the next of kin/will beneficiary and the fund
will be paid to you as the beneficiary. We are to share this money between
ourselves and also donate 10% to charity and the tsunami victims if you are
really interested in this offer you should contact me through this email
address: georgehsbc@latinmail.com

Note: that this transaction is risk free. I will commence immediately to
secure all legal documents in your favor on your acceptance to fully
co-operate with me.

I await your urgent response to enable us start this project and nurture it
to reality.

Kind Regards,

Sir Howard George
Head of Investigation Department
HSBC Bank Plc.

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