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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 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.
  • +447024020972 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • mrhenryphilips1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mrhenry philips" <mrhenryphilips222@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:29:54 +0100
Subject: ATTN:Wojciechowski

Dear Wojciechowski,

I am Mr Henry Philips the Bank Manager of Citibank 332 Oxford Street,
London W1N 9AA +447024020972.Please i hope that this will not be a
misplacement of trust hence I make this urgent and very confidential
business proposition for you. On september 2000, an iraqi Foreign Oil
consultant/contractor with the British Petroluem Corporation Hafeez Al
Sadique made a numbered time (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months,valued
at US$15.500,000.00 (Fifteen Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in
my branch.
Upon maturity in 2000,I sent a routine notification to his
forwarding address but got no reply. After a month,we sent a reminder and
finally we discovered from his contract employers, the british petroluem
corporation that HAFFEZ AL SADIQUE died as a result of tuture in he hand of
saddam hussein during one of his trips to his country iraq as one of the
iraqi elites opposing the tyranical leadership of sadam hussein. On further
investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all
attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation and discovered that mr HAFFEZ
AL SADIQUE. did not declare any kin or relations in all his official
documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in citibank here in oxford
street london. This sum of US$15.500,000.00 have been floating as unclaimed
since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the
stones.
According to the british law at the expiration of 6 (SIX) years,
the money will revert to the ownership of the british Government if nobody
applies to claim the fund and the six years is this year end of September
2006 with Six month validation period which will finally expire by March
2007.Consequently, my proposal is that i want to seek your consent as a
foreigner to stand in as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the
decesased so that the bank will transfer the money to your designated
account.All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be
carefully worked out.
I have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of
the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that the business
is risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for myself and
for investment purpose as i will invest my share in your country .
The sharing of the funds will be based According to agreement within
you and i. As soon as i receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this
message in acceptance of my mutual business proposal, I will furnish you
with the necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties
without any conflict.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage
of the trust i have bestowed in you bearing in mind my position as any
attempt to sabotage me will automatically lead to lost of all my life effort
in the banking industry. Betray me will make me suffer the rest of my
life.Please appreciate the fact that doing business over the internet is
risky.Endeavour to send your confidential telephone and fax number in your
reply to mrhenryphilips1@yahoo.com(alternative email) in anticipation of
your friendly cooperation and further advice.

yours faithfully.
Mr Henry Philips.

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