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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.
  • george_davids67@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • georgedavids_audit@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "MR GEORGE DAVIDS" <{george_davids67@excite.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18.56.31 +0200
Subject:

From Mr george davids
The Auditor/Head
of Department
Bank of Scotland,
United Kingdom

Hello,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail
does not meet your personal ethics.
I will introduce myself as Mr.
george davids, the auditor and the head of the bank of scotland here in
the United Kingdom.
One of our accounts with holding balance of
?15,000,000(Fifteen Million Pounds sterlings) has been dormant and
has not been operated for the past 4 years. From my investigations and
confirmations, the owner of this account, a foreigner by name
Kurt
Kahle died in July, 2000 and since then nobody has done anything as
regards the claiming of this money because he has no family members
who are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds.
Also Information from the National Immigration states that he was
also
single on entry into the UK. See this http://news.bbc.co.
uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm for more information about his death.

I have secretly resolved to find a reliable foreign partner to deal
with. I thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next
of kin of these funds from the deceased and funds released to you after
due processes have been followed.

At the conclusion of this business
you will get 30% of the total sum,65% will be for me and the remaning
5% will be expenses that both parties might inncure in this business.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is
legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry,
terrorism
or any other illegal act. On your indication of interest,
please get
back to me through my personal email address
{george_davids67@excite.com}.
{georgedavids_audit@yahoo.com}

Regards,

Mr.george davids

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