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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 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.
  • auditor_leonard@37.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: A.Leonard ( Bank Auditor) <auditor_leonard@sify.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:02:52 +0100
Subject: URGENT TRANSFER OF FUND

RE-TRANSFER OF 6.6 MILLION DOLLAR'S INTO YOUR ACCOUNT:

Good day, I am a bank Auditor in Europe, I have the opportunity of transferring a left over fund, $6,6M(
Six Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars) to your foreign account for partnership investment.the fund
belong to my bank deceased customer.

During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1990
and since 1996 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the
records, I discovered that the owner of the account died without a "Heir apparent to the throne" hence
the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently, it will be forfeited for nothing.

I urgently needed your assistant to enable us make claim to his account balance, If my offer is
acceptable by you to work as partner with me in other to become the next of kins to enable the bank re-
transfer his balance to your account,

You will have 40% of the total amount as gratification after the transfer or we can agree to a joint
investment, you can reach me for more details to the said transfer on this address:
Auditor_leonard@37.com

Best Regards,
Andwer Leonard
Auditor General

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