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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 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.
  • morris_csfb@mail2finance.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: morriscsfb@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:31:13 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Expression=20of=20interest=2E?=

MORRIS SHOREY
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON (EUROPE) UK
I Cabot Square, London E14 4QJ
United Kingdom
www.csfb.com
Email:morris_csfb@mail2finance.com

Dear Sir/madam,

My name is Morris Shorey and I work with a Bank here in London-England,The
name of the bank is Credit Suisse Banking Group. We had a Mr. Allen Giles,
customer that had a deposit of US$12.5M Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) before he died in a plane crash with his wife and
only Child about 4years now (January 30, 2004) and since his death, we in
the Bank here have been expecting his/her next of kin/relative(s) for the
inheritance of the deposit, but none has surfaced.

The policy of the Bank however stipulates a limited time period for such
Inheritance to be made or the fund will be written off going by the record
of the incident, the time limit for the claim is closing up. In this consideration,
I am contacting you to seek for your kind understanding and sincerely co-operation
to claim this inheritance for our mutual benefit. If you can stand as the
next of kin in this project, success is assured because I am in possession
of the personal file jacket of the deceased which contains every needed
information about the account and the deceased and you and I stand no risk
of any kind because I have enough information to support you in claiming
the inheritance.

The proceedings of the transaction will be shared 50% each after expenses
are reimbursed. Kindly indicate your willingness through the alternative
email address provided and we shall proceed with the initial step for the
claim. The entire project is expected to last for about ten working days.
If interested please reply through email:morris_csfb@mail2finance.com

Best Regards,
Morris Shorey

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