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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.
• 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.
  • paulpeter7111@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: paul peter <paulpeter1313131@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: paulpeter_1211@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:52:40 +0100 (BST)
Subject: URGENT


>From Mr paul peter,Account manager
Lippo bank Jakarta Indonesia
Attn:,
I am a staff of Lippo Bank Jakarta Indonesia. I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $22.7million,( Twenty Two Million One Hundred Thousand Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.Peter Lund an American who unfortunately lost his life in the Tsunami disaster in Thailand 2004.,including his wife and only daughterSince we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with
him in the Tsunami disaster leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin.Once i receive your reply i will give more information on how to conclude this transaction.Please respond to my private email for security reason.
Email ;paulpeter7111@yahoo.com

Mr paul


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