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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 amount 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)
  • "million british pounds" (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)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Janan Herb" <jan.harb15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jannethharb@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 21:07:46 +0100
Subject: Dear Wouters,

OU WITH ALL DUE RESPECT AND NEVER HAVE YOU ENTERTAINED ANY FEAR IN THIS
TRANSACTION, FOR THIS IS REAL AND GENUINE, ALL I NEED IS HONESTY AND YOUR
CAPABILITY TO HANDLE THIS PROJECT ON MY FAMILY BEHALF.

Please kindly take a look at these web pages for more information:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
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xml=/news/2005/06/14/nfahd14.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/14/ixhome.html
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http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0506/050615-fahd-divorce.html
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Dear Beloved One,


I know your first reaction to this mail will be total rejection, scare and
may be Unbelief, knowing largely to the atrocities and ugly things that
people commit these days on the Internet.

But this mail comes from a devastated, sorrowful and emotional laddered soul
that needs compassion from a kind and good spirited person to wipe away my
tears, perhaps when am gone beyond this sinful world by Investing jointly as
partners in your country.

I am Mrs.Janan Harb I am the above named person. I was once married to King
Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz The King of the Kingdom Of new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
and the 11th son of the founder of the Saudi kingdom, king Ibn Saud.

Who has been on throne since 1982 till after his death On the morning of 1st
August, 2005. Though he has been of and on the hospital since after his
stroke in the year 1995 and was hospitalized twice in MAY 1999.

Before the divorce, He made me to understand that he deposited the sum of
(Twenty Seven Million British Pounds ) with a finance house in Accra Ghana.
Please, I Here by request for your urgent assistance to help me in this
regards, investing the fund as a partnership investment with your company or
any investment that both of us will benefit from it.

Presently, this money is still under the safe keeping of the Trust
Security&Finance Company here in Accra Ghana where my Late husband wanted to
invest in a gold business before his sudden death, I dont want any of my
husbands relatives to know about this development northe Government of Saudi
Arabia.

Please tell me in confidence, can you handle it? Can you invest this huge
amount of money successfully on behalf of my two daughters and me? Have you
ever handle such amount of money before? How old are you? Please advise most
Urgently.

As soon as I receive your reply, I will Furnish you with the information of
my personal attorney who I have entrusted every details regarding this
transaction and he will also issue you a power of attorney on this regards,
making you the Original- beneficiary of this fund with other related
documents.

Thanks.
Yours in Sincerely,
Mrs. Janan Harb.

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