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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:
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "David Kimsan" <david_kim003@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: david.kimsan@capitalplacementcombodia.cjb.net
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:03:08 +0000
Subject: Attn: Sima

From: David Kimsan.
      12/13, Preah Norodom Blvd,
      Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Greeting!

I hope this mail doesn't come to you as an embarrassment as I receive unsolicited mails sometimes. The truth about it is that many individuals have failed to understand the use for which the Internet is set for us to benefit, and therefore some abuse the privilege.

I am David Kimsan, I work with a security and Finance company here in Cambodia and I am the deposit officer to Mr. Alexander Sima, a foreign contractor from your country who died here in Phnom Penh, Cambodia without any will. I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my clients immediate and extended relatives. This has proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to track his last name on the internet and that is the reason for my contacting you to assist me in claiming the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Security and Finance company where his huge deposits of Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($9.5M) United State Dollars was lodged.

Since I have been unsuccesful in locating the the relatives for over two years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same surname so that the proceeds of this deposit valued at ($9.5M) Million Dollars will be paid to you. For your honest participation, you will retain 50% of the entire deposit while I keep 50% for myself.

I will secure all necessary documents to back up claims as Next of Kin on your behalf.All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by email to enable us discuss further.

Best Regards,
David Kimsan.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

 

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