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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 british pounds" (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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • david_morganng21@yahoo.com.sg (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?DAVID=20MORGAN?= <david_morganng21@yahoo.com.sg>
Reply-To: david_morgan1@myway.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 21:38:00 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: OK


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: david_morganng21@yahoo.com.sg

David Morgan

Auditor General of

Nat west Bank Group

UK.

Dear Sir /Madam,

I am David Morgan, Auditor General of Nat west Bank Group UK. Nat west

Bank London. I am writing following an opportunity in my office that

will be of immense benefit to both of us.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 20.5million British

Pounds Sterling (Twenty million five hundred thousand British Pounds)

in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.

Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the

plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,

including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the

crash on visiting this site.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and

http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his

next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we

cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation

to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only

daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the

knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this

iscovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to

make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin

or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent

disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go

back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained

after six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as

unclaimed funds.

We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,

while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your

country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above

once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you

receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.

Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of

these funds to you has been finalized. We will discuss much in details

when I do receive your response.

Please if you are interested in this project contact me for further

directives,

Best regards,

David Morgan.



- DAVID MORGAN

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