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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • samueljinoo@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "samueljino1002@terra.es" <samueljino1002@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:01:14 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Contact me on this email( samueljinoo@yahoo.com )



FROM:MR.SAMUEL JINO=20
EMAIL;samueljinoo@yahoo.com=20


BUSINESS PROPOSAL

I am the manager of bills and exchange at the foreign
Remittance Department of the ABSA Bank of
South Africa.=20

In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$22.5 Million in a non-resident account that belongs
to one foreign customer who died with his entire
family in November 1997 in ghastly plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his
money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin relating to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately
we learn that all his supposed next of kin=E2=80=99s or
relatives died along with him at the plane crash,
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore
upon this discovery that other officials in the
department and I now decided to make business with you
and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relative of the deceased. For safety and subsequently
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
don=E2=80=99t want this money to go to disbursement account as
an unclaimed bill. The banking law of South Africa
stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed for a
period of 10 years, it will be transferred into the
State/ Government accounts as unclaimed fund.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer to you as
the next of kin in this business is occasioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and a South
African cannot stand as a next of kin to a foreigner.
Meanwhile, we agree that 20% of this money will be for
your assistance as a foreign partner. Thereafter, my
colleagues and I will visit your country for
disbursement account to the percentages indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer to you as
arranged, you must apply to the bank as a relative or
next of kin to the deceased indicating your company=E2=80=99s
name and bank account and the location wherein the
money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply,
fax for the text of application.

As soon as you receive this letter, you should contact
me immediately through the above e-mail

samueljinoo@yahoo.com=20

and indicate your direct and confidential
Tel/FAX Numbers for effective communication required.
This will work out as soon as you reply. Trusting to
hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

MR.SAMUEL JINO =20





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