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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:
  • "there are practically no risks involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • robertholley@latinmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "holley robert" <holleyman_111@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: robertholley@latinmail.com
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:06:23 +0200
Subject: Private and Confidential From Robert Holley

Private and Confidential From Robert Holley

Greetings From Robert Holley. Writing to seek your consent in a private
and confidential matter regarding some funds unaccounted for in my bank
here in South Africa during the last 2005 business year. I need assistance
from
a trust worthy and reliable person whom I will fill in as the beneficiary.
Your major role would be to provide either an existing bank account or
to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money and get
30% of the total funds as commission. There are practically no risks
involved,

the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect us from any breach of the law, it will be simply a bank-to-bank
transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the beneficiary
of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office
can order the transfer to your designated bank account under few working
days. I am Mr. Robert Holley,

the regional manager of AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK (AFDB),and I write you
this proposal in good faith; I am married with five lovely kids. It is my
duty as the regional manager to send in financial report to my head office
in
the capital city at the end of each business year. On the course of the
last year 2005 business report, I discovered the sum of Twenty six million
eight hundred and fifty thousand united state dollars 26,850,000.00
belonging
to a foreigner Industrialist Kenneth Gardner who died without a
beneficiary,

in my branch in which I am the manager. Our head office is not aware of and
will never be aware of it. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow
call
account with no beneficiary and as an officer of this bank I cannot be
directly
connected to this money, hence i contacted you. If you accept to work with
me I
will appreciate it very much as you are the first and the only person I am
contacting for this transaction. We will start the first transfer with
sixteen million dollars, upon successful transaction with out any
disappointment from your side,

we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account.
At this juncture i wish to tell you what prompted me to package this deal.
I have a 9-year old daughter who has leukemia, disease of the blood, and she
needs a bone marrow transplant or she will die. I want this transplanting to
be
done in any good children hospital in your country if there is one. Once
this
fund is transferred into your account,

I shall resign from my job and bring my family to start a new life in your
country.
I would be grateful if you would help me in looking out for good investment
opportunities with my own part of the money in a profitable business. I have
worked
for this bank for the past 15 years yet I have nothing to show for it, I
really need
your assistance to secure this fund as soon as possible.

Send me Mail<robertholley@latinmail.com> as soon as you receive this
message if you
think we can work together, so that we can go over the details. Send also
your Private
Mobile and fax numbers for a more proper elaboration.

Truly yours
Robert Holley.

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