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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.
• 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.
  • ryanvandam@3xl.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "abnamro_bank@terra.es" <abnamro_bank@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:43:53 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Hello!




Good day!

Upon special auditing panel set-up by the Boards of directors of the ABN-AMRO BANK LTD (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) to investigate all credit account operated by it customers, that has been in operation for the last five (5) years. We discovered a credit account with A/C N0: NL85ABNA6008341843 floating with a huge fund amounting to (7,467,000.00 Euros).

On further trace I came across the file and found out that the true owner of this funds is Mr. Andreas Schranner, a German who was a property magnate but unfortunately lost his life, including his wife and their daughter in the plane crash (Flight AF4590) which crashed on July 31st 2000 killing all 109 people on board.

For more information visit the web link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I have been monitoring this account ever since I discovered this information and found out that nobody has ever come on behalf of the Late Mr. Andreas Schranner as his next of kin for this fund.

I am contacting you as a reliable partner to execute this transaction with me. Upon your acceptance, I will provide you with his account file information’s and documents of deposit of the account and a text of application you will submit to the bank and I will then instruct you on how to claim as the next of kin to the late Mr. Andreas Schranner, so that the funds could be transferred to your Account for us to share, without any question arising from the bank.

And for your information, the transfer payment to apply for as the next of kin should be Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros (5,500,000.00 Euros). As soon as you confirm your interest and co-operation with me, I will give you guidelines on how you can transact with the bank for the approval of the funds to your A/C.
For more details reply to my personal mailbox: ryanvandam@3xl.net




Regards
Ryan F. Van Dam
Auditor (Abn-Amro Bank)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.







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