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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)
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "director credit and foreign bills" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +27781918320 (South Africa, 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.
  • kiwanuka1956@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: bennikiwanuka@aol.com
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:03:27 +0100
Subject: Please Keep This Personal.

>From The Director
Credit and Foreign Bills
ABSA BANK
Hatfield Branch
South Africa



Dear Sir/Madam ,


I am Mr. Benedict Kiwanuka,Director Credit and Foreign Bills in a local branch of ABSA BANK SOUTH AFRICA,i am writing in

respect of a foreign customer with an account in our bank whose name is Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER
In September 1999 i attended a business conference in china and I got introduced to Mr. Andreas Schranner, a renowned

German real Estate/property magnate.
During our discussion i spoke to him about going into diamond business here in South Africa which he found very interesting
Three months later which was December 1999 he invited me over and told me of his desire to open a fixed deposit account

with our bank which he planned to go into the diamond business with, under my professional guidance and based on my advice he

made a fixed deposit of US$27,350,000(Twenty Seven Million Three Hundred Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) in one of our

branches in February 2000.


This deposit was for 5 years since he could not go into the diamond business immediately being actively involved in real

estate/property business,the plan was when he retires from the real estate business he was going to go into diamond business

full time.Several times in the past i tried telephonically to reach him(Mr. Andreas) and was not successful but i did not

bother because it is very normal not to hear from clients for a period of time, but in February 2005 when the funds matured

which was time to go into the diamond business, I made frantic effort to contact my client, l still could not reach him. I

was forced to travel to Germany where he resided and there I got the tragic news that, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his

wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich, his son in law Christian, and their children Maximilian and Katharina, all perished

in the Monday, 31 July, 2000 plane crash in western German city of Moenchengladbach.
You can Click below to find out what happened to the Mr. Andreas Schranner :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

After further investigation, l also discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare any next of kin in his official

papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And l remember he also confided in me the last time he was at my office

that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Seventeen Million Three Hundred Fifty Thousand United States

Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to

the laws of my country at the expiration of a numbers of years the funds will revert to the ownership of the South African

Government as unclaimed funds if nobody applies to claim the funds.


Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr.

Andreas Schranner so that you will be able to receive his funds as long as you are going to be honest with me,upon success of

this transaction i will give you 30% of the money.

Please indicate your interest by replying to:kiwanuka1956@aim.com
or you can reach me via telephone on +277-8191-8320.

Regards,
Mr. Benedict Kiwanuka

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