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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27741149893 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • julian1965irwin@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: julianirwin65@aim.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:47:23 -0800
Subject: Urgen Request{Keep Personal}

From: Mr. Julian Irwin
ABSA Bank Ltd,
Republic of South Africa.
Direct Tel:+277-4114-9893


Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. Julian Irwin a banker in the ABSA Bank Ltd, South Africa. I have a profitable
transaction for you. I was attending a business luncheon in September 1999 in china
and I was introduced to Mr. Andreas Schranner, a renowned German Real Estate /Property
magnate.

He later employed my services as a banker and investment Consultant, Three months later
he invited me and told me of his desire to open a fixed deposit account, he could fall
back to on retirement, under my professional guidance and based on my advice he made a
fixed deposit of US$25,500,000(Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) in one of our branches.

This deposit was for 5 years and upon maturity I made effort to contact my client, l could
not reach him. I was forced to travel to Germany and there I got the tragic news that, my
client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich, his son in law
Christian, and their children Maximilian and Katharina, all perished in the Monday, 31 July,
2000 plane crash in western German city of Moenchengladbach.

Please Click here and find out what happened to the Mr. Andreas Schranner :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

After further investigation, l also discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare any
next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And l remember
he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit
in my bank. So, Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars is still lying
in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according
to the laws of my country at the expiration of a numbers of years the funds will revert to the
ownership of the South African Government as unclaimed funds if nobody applies to claim the funds.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the
next of kin to Mr. Andreas Schranner so that you will be able to receive his funds. Should you be
interested please send me your full names and Direct Telephone and Fax Numbers,then I shall
provide you with more details of this Transaction.

Please also note that I am willing to give you 30%(US$7,650,000) of the total money for your
assistance.That is,your share Seven Million Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars .

Your earliest response to this proposal will be appreciated and please reply to the following email add:
julian1965irwin@aim.com.

Be well and God Bless.

Best Regards,
Mr. Julian Irwin

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