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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "30% for you " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "MR.MING HOI YANG" <minghoi_y7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: minghoi_yang7@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:39:41 +0000
Subject: CONTACT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!

FROM: MR.MING HOI YANG
HANG SENG BANK LTD.
DES VOEUX RD.BRANCH,CENTRAL HONG KONG
HONG KONG
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER: 852-301-58478

Dear Friend,
It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive
because you do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of
mutual interest to share with you.Let me start by introducing myself. I am
Mr. Ming Hoi Yang operations manager of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd, Des Voeux
Road Branch,Central Hong Kong.Hong Kong. I have an obscured business
suggestion for you.Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Manal SaadAllah
Matti who was with the Iraqi forces and also business woman made a numbered
fixed deposit for 24 calendar months, with a value of Four million three
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$4,300,000.00) only in my branch.
Upon maturity
several notice was sent to her, even during the war early last year.Again
after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from
her. We later find out that Manal SaadAllah Matti and her family had been
killed during the war in bomb blast that hit their home at Mukaradeeb where
her personal oil well was.

http://www.iraqmemorialwall.org/iraqicasualties.html

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/names.htm

After further investigation it was also discovered that Manal SaadAllah
Matti did not declare any next of kin in her official papers including the
paper work of her bank deposit. And she also confided in me the last time
she was at my office that no one except me knew of her deposit in my bank.
So, Four million three Hundred Thousand United State 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 six{6}
years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if
nobody applies to claim the funds. Against ther backdrop,my suggestion to
you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to
Manal SaadAllah Matti so that you will be able to receive her funds.

MODALITIES:

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we
shall come out successful. I have an attorney that will prepare the
necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Manal
SaadAllah Matti,all that is required from you is to provide me with your
Full Names and Address so that the attorney can commence her job. After you
have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also fill in for claims on
your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of probate in your
favor for the movement of the funds to an account that will be provided by
you.We are going adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all
the necessary documents in your favour.There is a reward for this project
and it is a task well worth undertaking.There is no risk involved at all in
the matter,I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is for
you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who
knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has
planted you into the center of relevance in my life.Please endeavor to
observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning there issue.

Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account we shall
share in the ratio of 70% for me, 30% for you but there can be subjected to
further negotiations. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as
to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is
nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter
of gold. Please observe ther instruction religiously.Should you be
interested please complete and send me the following information below:

1,Full names,
2,private phone number,
3,current residential address,

And finally after that I shall furnish you with more informations about
there operation.Your earliest response to ther letter will be
appreciated.

Kind Regards
Mr. Ming Hoi Yang.

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