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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:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "mike holt" <mikeholt_23@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: holtmike_1@yahoo.de
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:33:15 -0700
Subject: UNCLAIMED MONEY.

Mr. Mike Holt
Private Bankers
London


Dearest,

I got your contact on my search for a reliable and trusted person to share
an urgent business thought with. I know that the contents of this mail might
sound so strange, but I want to assure you that every word of it is true. I
am Mr. Mike Holt, the former credit officer of one of the leading British
based private investment bankers. I have a concealed business suggestion for
you. Before the plane crash that killed Mrs. Dimka Ilkova Boskovic on
February 26, 2004, Dimka Ilkova Boskovic from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Macedonia and also a business woman made a fixed deposit for 12
calendar months, with a value of Nine Million Eight Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars Only, in my branch.


My appointment at the bank was terminated when I disclosed to the British
Treasury Department officials that were on routine inspection of my banks,
that the above funds have been dormant for the past two years and should be
declared as unclaimed funds. Before this incidence, the board of directors
of my bank adopted a resolution mandating me, as the account officer to
Mrs.Dimka Ilkova Boskovic, to provide her next of kin so that her funds can
be transferred to them. I was unable to get any of her next of kin because
Mrs. Dimka Ilkova Boskovic did not declare any next of kin in all her
official account documents including the deposit slip. And she also
confided in me that no one except me knew of the deposit in my bank. This
has made it impossible to locate or appoint any of her relation as next of
Kin. Now the sum of Nine Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars is still lying in the bank vault and no one will ever come forward
to claim it. What bothers me most is that the directors will in the next one
month invoke the abandoned property acts of 1991 to confiscate and declare
the funds ‘unclaimed’ after the expiration of the mandatory period.

Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness, I was fortunate to come across
your name. My suggestion to you is that you stand as the next of kin to Mrs.
Dimka Ilkova Boskovic. I have all the necessary documents and information
which will enable you put in a successful application as the next of kin.
Payment will then be made to you and that will stop these evil directors
from confiscating the funds. With the documents and information at my
disposal couple with the help of my friend in the bank, nothing will ever
stop you from succeeding in claiming this deposit in the next two weeks if
we apply with your name.

All I require for us to succeed is your honest cooperation, trust and
assurance that you will not cheat me out of the deposit when payment is made
to you. The application will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you and me, from any breach of the law. Be Inform also, that we
shall share the funds in the ratio 70% for me and 25% for you, while 5%
should be for expenses and tax as I understand you may need to pay taxes on
the funds when it gets to your country.

Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this
issue. I will disclose more information to you as soon as you signify your
interest. Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Kind regards,


Mr. Mike Holt.

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