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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:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +31628396069 (Netherlands, 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.
  • macaobeh@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: macaulay@macaulayobeh3.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:29:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: MR. MACAULAY OBEH.


MR. MACAULAY OBEH.
FINANCE/SECURITY DEPARTMENT.
Private E-mail: macaobeh@aim.com
Sir/Madam,
I am seeking for your co-operation to present you to ABN AMROW BANK(FINANCE/SECURITY DEPARTMENT)as the next of kin to Mrs. Sigrid Fassnacht, a foreign contractor from Cologne, Germany who died on a plane crash on July 25th 2000 with her husband Rudi Fassnacht. Her husband and their two childrens also perished in the air France Concorde New York bound flight; please click here for
verification.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Before her death she was a contractor to Shell National Petroleum Co-operation (SNPC) and has a deposit made in ABN AMROW BANK(FINANCE/SECURITY DEPARTMENT) to the tune of (8.5milion Euros) as a FAMILY TREASURE without revealing the real contents to the ABN AMROW BANK(FINANCE/SECURITY DEPARTMENT) for security reason according to their WILL their family lawyer presented.
Note that you are to stand as the next of kin of the deceased to the Security Company in order to have the money deposited as a Family Treasure claim for our sharing. For your information, I am the system and control director with ABN AMROW BANK NL (FINANCE/SECURITY DEPARTMENT) NETHERLANDS.
The board of directors of ABN AMROW BANK NL which I am also a member, mandated me to look for any known relation of Mrs. Sigrid Fassnacht, since after her death. However, all my efforts traces prove abortive, that is the main reason I am writing you this to ask for your co-operation for us to claim this money because it will amount to injustice if I do not take this decisive step to secure this deposit and invest it, because if nobody comes forward to claim the funds it will be forfeited to the government, based on that, I am contacting you to assist me in making this transaction a reality. I only have to present you as the next of kin and the deposited funds will be release to you as the next of kin.
We are to share this money between ourselves and also donate 10% to charity and the tsunami victims if you are really interested in this offer you should contact me through this email address: macaobeh@aim.com or call me on +31-628-396-069 for more oral discussions.
For detail of this transaction and procedures, please do forward me your full address, phone number/mobile number, your company name or occupation these info will enable me commence immediately to secure all legal documents in your favor on your acceptance to fully co-operate with me.
I await your urgent response to enable us start this project and nurture it to reality.
Yours faithfully,
MR. MACAULAY OBEH.

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