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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "you will be given 30%" (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: Thoms Silvanus <silvathoms32@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <silvanusthoms01@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:47:13 +0000
Subject: Your urgent respond



Compliments,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. I want to transfer to your country a deposit worth ($9,700.000.00 USD) Nine Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from one of the Security and finance firm located in Dakar Senegal. I want to ask you, If you are not capable, you quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this deposit, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business ,I am trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future.
I am Mr Thoms Silvanus. a personal assistant to late Andreas Schranner. During the course of his Security Company's last week updating/auditing,it was discovered that since his death no one has come forward to lay claim to this deposit. so the security and finance firm issued me a memo to provide his next of kin or forfeith the consignment. This deposit was secretly made as family treasure with the security company in 1999 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in my records,I discovered that my late client died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the deposit is floating and if I do not retreive this deposit out urgently from the security company it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this consignment, Mr. Andreas Schranner a German property magnate who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of AF4590 German Concorde which crahsed on July 25th 2000,including his family leaving nobody as next of kin.
No other person except me knows about this deposit or any thing concerning it, the deposit has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the deposit is secretly made without the holding company knowing the real content but being his personal assistant, I knew virtualy every thing about the deposit. The total amount involved is Nine million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only [$9, 700.000.00] and I wish to transfer this deposit into a safe foreigner's care abroad. But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this deposit can not be approved to a local person here, but to a foreigner who has information about the deposit, which I shall give to you upon your positive response. I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total amount,75% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of retrieiving and transferring this deposit to your care where I would join you for sharing and future investment under your advise. I look forward to your earliest reply. PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.
Best Regards,Mr.Thoms Silvanus.
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