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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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.
  • hendickpees@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "peterson hendrick" <dricksen@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:42:44 +0200
Subject: Private Findings

FROM: PETERSON HENRICK
PRETORIA SOUTH AFRICA.


Dear Friend,

With all due respect to your personality, I request that you do not feel
disturbed as I know that business of this magnitude will surely make one
apprehensive.
I write to solicit your utmost confidence, knowing too well that we have
neither known nor met each other before, but because you and the late
Mr.Robert Ali Baker are from the same country. Having searched through the
internet, from where I got your email address, I hereby request that you
become the Next of Kin to the late customer of our bank, Late Mr.Robert
Baker, who died in South Africa here and abandoned a fixed deposit of Nine
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States dollars (USD $ 9.500.000.00), without a specified next of kin to
inherit the deposit at the
time of his death.

My name is PETERSON HENDRICK. I am an accountant and the accounting officer
to the Mr.Robert Baker in the INVESTEC BANK SOUTH AFRICA. In the financial
Laws of the Republic of South Africa, the holding bank is required to
repatriate any abandoned fund by a foreigner if nobody comes to claim the
said funds after three (3) years of the confirmation of the death of the
depositor. For the past three years, all the effort of our Customer Service
Department to trace any relative of the Late Mr.Robert Baker has proved
abortive. I do not want this funds to go into the hands of our corrupt
government officials, who have embezzled our national funds all these years.

My interest in this abandoned deposit is as follows:

1) To see that this abandoned deposit is not handed over to the corrupt
government officials.

2) To make you the Next of Kin to the late Mr.Robert Baker and whom he has
willed the said deposit before his death. 3) To ensure that the deposited
funds is transferred to your account as your INHERITANCE? so that the
proceeds of this account valued at Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States dollar (USD$9.500.000.00) can be paid to you and then you and
I can share this money. 60% for me and 35% for you, while 5% should be for
expenses or tax as your Government may require.

4) To ensure that my own share of it is invested wisely in your country in
any viable area of investment. Bear in mind that the entire transaction will
be risk- free and legitimate since the funds will be coming to you as your
INHERITANCE.
If this proposition is acceptable by you, respond to me ASAP by REPLYING TO
MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: (hendickpees@yahoo.com) but if not acceptable by
you, do not take advantage of it to betray me. Remember that doing business
over the Internet could sometimes be unconfident. If acceptable by you, send
me your private telephone and fax numbers for me to call you for detailed
discussion.

Kind regards,

PETERSON HENDRICK

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