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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 us 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.
  • hayes_tsb@yahoo.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • hayesabbott@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?abbott=20hayes?= <hayes_tsb@yahoo.com.br>
Reply-To: hayesabbott@myway.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME


Meu novo endereço de e-mailAgora você pode me contactar através do e-mail: hayes_tsb@yahoo.com.br

FROM MR Abbott Hayes


Lloyds TSB of London

- Hello friend I am Mr Abbott A Hayes I work with the Lloyds TSB of London and Currently I work at the international remittance department of the Bank In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $33 million US dollars thirty three million one hundred thousand united state dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer 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 Since the death of our late customer the Lloyds Bank Authorities have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because the Bank cannot release the funds unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relative to the deceased It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other staffs in this department now decided to do business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin of our late customer for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it We have agreed to offer you 25% for your assistance 5% for any expenses we may incur during the process of this transaction and the rest 70% shall be for I and my two other colleagues All the relevant documents shall be forwarded to you upon your indication to co-operate with us in this transaction Kindly include your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication because I will prefer to have a heart to heart discussion with you on this issue This business is hundred percent (100%) risk free Please if you are interested forward the following information A YOUR FULL NAMES & ADDRESS B YOUR PHONE MOBILE AND FAX NUMBERS C YOUR AGE MARITAL STATUS & NATIONALITY D OCCUPATION & POSITION Once I receive these information about you I will tell you what we shall do next to proceed I am waiting to hear from you as soon aspossible Sincerely yours Mr Abbott A Hayes ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS hayesabbott@myway.com

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