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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:
  • "inheritance tax" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • ",000,000" (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 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.
  • stewart_barculobmm@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Stewart Barculo <stewart_barculoudd@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:33:56 -0500
Subject: RE:REPLY IMMEDIATELY.

Standard Life Bank,
30 Lothian Road,
Edinburgh EH1 2DH


Good Day To You,

Though i have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have approached you on this issue being that the internet has been greatly abused over the recent years and is very unsecured for informations of vital importance. I have decided to take the chance seeing that no other means could have been faster and more efficient than the E-mail

I am Stewart Barculo, Staff Standard Life Bank Limited.I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banks management three years ago.I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contacted you independently of our investigation 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.In 2000,
the subject matter; came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of fifty million united states
dollars($50,000,000,00).i want you to stand as the bona-fide next of kin to the desease.

My proposal; you share the same surname With our late client; I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct The security Firm to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation.Upon receipt of the deposit,I am prepared to share the money with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds 50% for me, 50% for you Should you be interested please send me your full names,privatephone/fax number and A valid identification,This is not going to cost you anything from my end because i am the one that will take care of the attorney's charges for the preparation of the legal documentations and also pay for the inheritance tax from here because i do not want you to have any problem paying tax so i will take care of that from here,The only thing that you are going to do is to open an account in your name and this is going to be your personal account in an offshore bank and send
the details to me for us to transfer the funds from here. I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below And finally after that i shall provide you with more details of this transaction.Your earliest response to this letter will be highly appreciated.

EMAIL ;stewart_barculobmm@yahoo.co.uk

I await your response.

Mr Stewart Barculo.




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