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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024021351 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +2348039306359 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • attwannieatt@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Jane Wannie" <attwannieatt1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: attobianyoatt@myway.com
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:17:02 +0200
Subject: CONTACT ME URGENT

>From Mrs.Jane Wannie,
# 18 KUDULA CRESCENT
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA.
Satellite Phone Nos: +447024021351,+2348039306359
Email: attwannieatt@myway.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

Permit me to use this wonderful oppurtunity to introduce to you a lucrative
business proposal hoping that you are a reliable and honest person who will
be capable for this important business.I am From Mrs.Jane Wannie,a
consulting auditor of prime banks here in South Africa.
On June 6,1998,an American Mining consultant/contractor with the South
African Mining corporation, Mr.Gregory A.Williams made a numbered time
(fixed)deposit for twelve calendar months,value U S $14,200,000.00 an
account. On maturity, The bank sent a routine notification to his forwarding
address but got no reply.
After a month,The bank sent another reminder and finally his contract
employers,the South African Mining corporation wrote to inform the bank that
Mr.Gregory A.Williams died from an automobile accident,that he died without
MAKING A WILL, and all attempts by the American Embassy to trace his next of
king was fruitless.
I therefore, made further investigation and discovered that Mr.Gregory
A.Williams in fact was an immigrant from Jamaica and only recently obtained
American citizenship.He did not declare any kin or relations in all his
official documents, including his Bank deposit paper work. This money total
U S $ 14,200,000.00 is still sitting in my bank as dormant Account. No one
will ever come forward to claim it, and according to South African banking
policy,after 5 years, the money will revert to the ownership of the South
African Government if the account owner is certified dead. This is the
situation, and my proposal
is that I am looking for a foreigner who will stand in as the next of kin to
Mr.Gregory A.Williams,and a Bank Account abroad will then facilitate the
transfer of this money to the beneficiary/ next of kin.This is simple, all
you have to do is to immediately send me a bank account anywhere in the
world for me to arrange the proper money transfer paperwork.
This money total USD ($14.2M) will then be paid into this Account for us to
share in the ratio of 70% for me, 25 % for you and 5% for expenses that
might come up during transfer process. There is no risk at all, and all the
paper work for this transaction will be done by me using my position and
connection in the banks in South Africa.
This business transaction is guaranteed. If you are interested, please reply
immediately through my personal email sending the following details:
personal email sending the following details:
(1) Your Full Name/Address And Your country
(2) Your Full Account Details
(3) Your Private Telephone/fax Number.
Please observe the utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require
your assistance to invest my share in your country.
I look forward to your earliest reply true this email:
attwannieatt@myway.com

Best Regards,
>From Mrs.Jane Wannie.

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