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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:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Robert Skinner(Mr)"<clivewhittaker_fid@myway.com>
Reply-To: rbertskinner@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:53:48 -0500 (EST)
Subject: ACKNOWLEDGE AT YOUR EARILEST CONVINCE




ROBERT SKINNER

5th Floor Cannon Bridge House

25 Dowgate Hill

London, EC4R 2SB

United Kingdom

Attn:

I feel obliged writing this mail to you. I am not quite exposed to foreign business and friends hence i write to you with hope and trust that you will welcome my mail without being bias and that you will be trust worthy to me. I want to seek your assistance after my discovery during auditing in my bank as am the Manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of FIRST FIDUCIARY BANK PLC. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of £38.10 Million Pounds in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Robert A. Whittaker; Died along with his entire family in Minnesota Plane Crash on Sunday, December 29, 2002. Robert A. Whittaker, Is the Chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy International Company, Clinton, New Jersey.

Since his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but unfortunately all the efforts proved abortive. It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head of my department to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the Bank Treasury as unclaimed bills.

Do not view this as being illegal but an opportunity for us to help enrich our hope in life instead of the bank converting this much money to the security funds. You should not nurse any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the smooth transfer of these funds and your acceptance is what will crown this effort.

Thanks,

Robert Skinner (Mr).

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