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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 sum of money" (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 business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • infodonnewport@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Don Newport & co <infodonnewport@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:09:19 +0100 (BST)
Subject: URGENT DELIVERY ( CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY!!!)


My name is Don Newport
I work with the mining finance debt. of Standard
Bank of London .
http://www.sbl.co.uk/MiningMetals/Contacts.aspx
I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer
regarding an investment he placed under our bank
management some years ago. I would respectfully
request that you keep the contents of this mail
confidential and respect the integrity of the
Information that comes by as a result of this mail.
We are contacting you independently of our
investigations and no one is informed of this
communication. I would like to intimate you with
certain facts that I believe would be of interest to
you. We had a foreign customer who deposited a huge
sum of money with our bank, who was later declared
dead of a heart attack in Cannes , South of France.
Before his death, he had with our bank the sum of
US$26.5M (TWENTY-SIX MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED SATES DOLLARS). Immediately after his death
our bank immediately launched an investigation into
possible surviving next of kin to alert about the
situation and also to come forward to claim his
estate/funds. If you are familiar with private
banking affairs, those who patronize our services
usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels of
detachment from conventional processes.
In his bio-data form, he listed no next of kin. In
the field of private banking, opening an account
with us means no one will know of its existence,
accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors
use numbers and codes to make the accounts
anonymous. This bank also gives the choice for
depositors of having their mail sent to them or held
at the bank itself, ensuring that there are no
traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they
nominate next of kin. Private banking clients apart
from not nominating next of kin also usually in most
cases leave wills in our care, in this case; the
deceased died without a testate.
In line with our internal processes for account
holders who have passed away, we instituted our own
investigations in good faith to determine who should
have right to claim the estate. This investigation
has for the past months been unfruitful.
On this note, I and some officials who prefer not to
be mentioned would want you to apply to this bank as
the next of kin.
We have earmarked a commission of 30% of the total
amount for you. A further 5% will be set aside to
cover expenses on both sides, which will include
expenses incurred in processing this claim. The
remaining 65% will be ours. We want you to know that
this business is hitch free and that you should not
welcome any fear as the whole required arrangement
has been made including all the entire legal
documents.
I will advise you to please contact me on this
Email: infodonnewport@yahoo.co.uk
as soon as you get this email for further
information.
As soon as I get your response I will forward you my
contact telephone number for easy communication.
Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a wife
and children. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I
know within me that nothing ventured is nothing
gained and that success and riches never come easy
or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I
have learnt from my private banking clients. Do not
betray my confidence.
If we can be of one accord, I assure you that you
that everything will be fine.
I await your prompt response.
Regards,
Mr. Don Newport
NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT CALL MY OFFICE NUMBER.

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