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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:
  • "million 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.
  • patrick_colombo@fastermail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Patrick" <patrick@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: patrick_colombo@fastermail.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:47:51 +0000
Subject: Very Urgent

Hello,

I know that This letter might surprise you because,we have not met
neither in person nor by correspondence. But I believe it is one
day that you get know somebody either in physical or through
correspondence.

I want to transfer ($82,000.000.00 USD) Eighty Two million United
States Dollars from a Prime Bank here in Dakar Senegal to an
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 of this important business trusting in you and
believing
that you will never let me down either now or in
future.

I am the personal account officer to the great late INDUSTRIALIST
who has an account in one of the top banks here in Dakar
Senegal.The account was opened
in 1998 and he died in 2003 without a written or oral WILL and
since 2003 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.

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 and until his death he was the manager of the
company.My investigation through the National immigration
department proved to me as well that he was single as at the time
of his entry into the
Republic of Senegal. The amount in this account is USD$82 Million
( Eighty Two Million 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 to you
immediately, if you are interested to do this business with
me.There is no risk in 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 Twenty Five million
[$25,000.000]. Upon successful transfer without any disappointment
from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining

balance of $57 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 for you.

The informations will be as follows..

Bank
Name..
Bank Address..
A/C Name...
A/C Number.....
Swift Code No...
Phone numbers home and office...

So you should provide me with your correct account details and your
phone numbers, 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 35%,5% will be for any expenses both parties
incurred in the process of this business and the remaining 60% will
be for me. 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 the processing of the transfer of
the fund to your account without further delay.

Contact me urgently via email
(patrick_colombo@fastermail.com) for further details.

Thanks. Yours
Faithfully,

Mr.PATRICK COLOMBO

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