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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:
  • "the consignment " (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)
  • "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)
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: Ambrose Kelvin <akelv33@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mramb_k@yahoo.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:27:32 +0100
Subject: Let Us Do This Project!



Hello, Let us combine Effort to Claim 40 Million United States Dollars from a Vault in Europe.
Please accept my sincere invitation. However, I would have explained this transaction to youon a one on one.
I am Mr. Ambrose Kelvin, a consultant. I was hired by India Businessman to broker an investmentdeal between himself and a company in America. This deal was executed in January 1997 andmatured for termination in 2001. On maturity, the India Businessman and the firm decided toterminate the investment in cash to avoid payment of investment tax, which amounted to hundredsof thousands of U.S dollars to the America internal revenue service (IRS). An arrangement wasmade between a top banker working with Japanese bank in New York, the firm and the businessmanto terminate the investment in cash payment under a fictitious name, with an arrangement tochange it latter with a power of attorney, which they prepared and handed over to the topbanker. I was directly involved, well paid and mandated to organize and carry out the deal. Allthe cash was withdrawn in august 2001 and moved to Europe by direct bank vault to vaultdelivering to a private storage firm in Europe for safe keeping pending the Collection.The real content of the boxes were not declared to the storage as it was delivered as personalfamily treasure and diamonds. The code for the storage, secret codes for the opening of theboxes and its keys were all handed over to me.
Mr. Vetakaraman the New York business man was planning to go to Europe by mid of November 2001with me for the claims when the unexpected happened in September 11th attack on the twin towerwhich claim his life and that of the top banker. This left me devastated and confused as I havenot yet handed over the deposit details to the owner and the power of attorney prepared for thechange which was signed was still with the banker in his office which was also lost. It wasagreed with the storage that the consignment would be collect on or before 12 months from thedate of delivery. Since due date the storage firm manager has been calling me to bring thesole beneficiary or tell the owner to come over for the claims as the amount deposited on storage space has long expired.
My friend, since then I have been looking for a reliable person who will liaise with me tocollect these consignment under special and well Negotiated arrangement because the Boxes areattracting Charges day in day out. I want to involve you in this process so that at the endof the day we shall share the raw cash in an agreed percentage with all of us that shall beinvolve and some parts be set aside for charity. All the needed secret code and identificationfor collection are all with me. Be assured that this transaction has been well organized, andit is 100% safe, legal, risk free and you must try and keep this as confidential as it demands.I need you to contact me for the way forward in this transaction. So that we can finish thisproject as speedy as possible.
I am waiting to hearing from you.In response I want you to send to me your full data.As in your phone and fax numbers.Your full names and address.Your ages, sex and marital status.Your Occupation and position in your office or organization
Then we can take it up from there.
Regards,
Mr. Ambrose Kelvin.

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