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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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.
• 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.
  • +447960682497
• 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.
  • kenprad01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ken pradman <kenpradman12@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: kenprad01@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:32:17 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Reply


67 Adys Road Peckham SE15 4DX
London-United Kingdom
Great Britain, London, UK
Phone: +447-9606-82497
Email:kenprad01@yahoo.com

Attn:Sir,

I am Mr.Ken Pradman in charge of Bills and Foreign
Exchange Remittance Department with a Finance House.I
am writing you this letter to ask for your support and
co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in
my department.


I discovered an unclaimed sum of $25Million (Twenty
five Million Dollars) deposited elonging to (Ball M.)
citizen of your state who before his death lived and
worked here in London On the 7 July, 2005 my client,
his wife and two children were killed as a result of a
bomb
explosion here in London.

For refernce ,plesase visit this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

After several unsuccessful attempts in trying to
locate any of his extended relatives,I decided to
trace members of his extended family over the internet
hence I found your contact email.I am asking you to
assist in repatriating the money and property left
behind by my late client before they get confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge
deposited.


The bank has issued me a notice to provide the next
of kin or have the account confiscated within the next
14 working days. Since I have been
unsuccessful in locating his relatives for about a
year now,I hereby seek your consent in order to
present you as the next of kin to the deceased,I have
decided to give you 25% of the total sum. There is no
risk involved. Because I will use my position as an
Officer and prepare all the legal documents/papers to
back you up.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
succeed without any hitch and I guarantee that this
will be executed under a legal and legitimate
arrangement that will protect us from any breach of
the law in the near or even distant future.

If you are interested to work with me in good faith
and honesty,or require
additional information. Please do reply immediately.


Looking forward to receiving your prompt reply

Yours Faithfully,
Ken Pradman

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