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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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)
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • rubbenshively@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: RUBBEN SHIVELY <rubben.shively010@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <rubbenshively@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:01:42 -0400
Subject: Compliments of the day!



Knights Quarter,14 St. John's Lane,London,EC1M 4AJ England Dearest, Compliments of the day! I got your contact on my private search for a reliable and trusted person to handle a transaction of this nature. I know that the contents of this mail might sound so strange,but I want to assure you that every word of it is true. I am Rubben ShiIvely a Financial Consultant to a deceased Immigrant Mr Andreas Schranner,property magnate who was based in the U.K.,who happens to be my client. On the month of July 2000, my client, his wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich, her husband Christian, and their children Katharina and Maximilian all died in the Air France concord plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise, http://news.bbc.co.­­­­uk/1/hi/world/eur­o­p­e­/859479.stm Since then I have been managing his properties here in the U.K. and some others which he put out for sale. The properties which have long been put out on sale have now been paid for and now the money paid has long been deposited into his local bank account here. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and estate left behind by my client before they get seized or declared unserviceable by his bank. Particularly, the bank has issued me with a notice to provide any of his beneficiary or have the account confisticated within a short period of time. my late client has an account valued at 25.3 Million United States Dollars Only. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of my clients relatives for some time now and with no one coming forward since my client passed on and with the bank now giving me a deadline, I now seek your consent to present you as the beneficiary to my deceased client, so that the proceeds of his account valued at 25.3 Million UnitedStates Dollars Only can be paid to you. This I intend we share amongst ourselves in the ratio of 50% to me and 40% for you while the balance 10% we shall use for settling any miscellaneous expenses that might arise. I have all the necessary information that can be used to back up any Claim that we may make and I can assure you that you shall be paid this amount as the beneficiary of the funds of my late client. All I require is your honest co-operation 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. Trust me as his personal consultant that this is a risk-free transaction. Please get in touch with me via my confidential email: rubbenshively@yahoo.co.uk and send me the following information: 1)Your full names and address as you want them used in the payment documents2)Telephone and fax numbers .Upon receipt of this information, we shall discuss further about thistransaction. Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation. Best regards,RUBBEN SHIVELY
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