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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "you will take 25%" (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 feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Foster larry" <fos_larry49@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fosterlarry@comic.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:47:38 +0200
Subject: FROM:Mr.Foster Larry.

FROM:Mr.Foster Larry.
AUDITOR GENERAL
First National Bank
6th floor, 1 First Place
Cnr Simmonds & Pritchard Street
Johannesburg, Gauteng
South Africa

This is from the office of Operational manager of First National Bank South
Africa.I humbly wish to seek your assistance in this matter that is very
important and need trust and understanding.


Attn,

RE:TRANSFER OF USD168,559,000.00 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business.Though, this
medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it
because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, this
correspondence is private,and it should be treated in strict confidence.

At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and
trouble free to both parties.


My name is Mr.Foster Larry, I work as the operational manager in account
management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of one of a prime
banks here in South Africa. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant
domiciliary account with a Balance of US $168,559,000. 00 (One hundred and
sixty eight million five hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S dollars only}.
The owner of the fund is a foreigner,a program leader who was believed to
acquire the fund through his secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQI
government.The deceased died with all the members of his family in an
auto-accident in June 23,1999 without a WILL.

I want to transfer this money into your account as the foreign beneficiary
of the fund. I know that this letter will come to you as a surprise as we
don't know ourselves before, BUT BE SURE THAT IT IS REAL AND A GENUINE
BUSINESS. I CONTACT YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ME DOWN ONCE THE
FUND GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.


I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner
and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy
foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c
is a foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL
attached to the account ,no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the
claim of this money. It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with
legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are
interested, therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction.

This money will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not
transfer the fund out to a foreign account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to
claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide
your safe bank account information for thetransfer. All arrangement that
will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to
nominate is already in place.You should provide me with your correct account
information for the transfer and your direct cell phone lines for easy
communication. I wish for utmost confidentiality in handling this
transaction.

At the successful transfer of the fund to your account, you will take 25% of
the total transfer sum,70% will be for me and my partner while 5% will be
set aside for transfer expenses both of usmight incure during the transfer
process.

Have a nice day as I entrust this transfer deal into your hands.Let me hear
from you URGENTLY by Email me. You can also fax or call me for more detail.


Let me hear from you ASAP.

Regards,

Mr.Foster Larry.

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