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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • jameselvis@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: james elvis <james32elvis@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <jameselvis1976@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:36:20 -0600
Subject: FROM JAMES ELVIS (AS NEXT OF KIN)



FROM JAMES ELVIS (AS NEXT OF KIN)Dear Friend I am James Elvis,in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance Department with a Finance House in lagos and also the personal account officer of Late Mr.Andrew Pitt. There have been an unclaimed sum of $US10.5Million ( Ten Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) deposit belonging to Late Mr.Andrew Pitt . He was a petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Iraq National Petroleum Corporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip? He died with his wife ( Mrs. Marie Pitt) on board the Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in September 2nd 1998, killing 229 people on board. See link below: http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/ Since we got information about his death.I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money.Unfortunately, neither the family nor the relation has appeared to claim this money, since we cannot release it unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to the deceased. Our guidelines indicate that if such money remained unclaimed for a period of nine (9) years, it would be transferred into the Finance House Treasury as unclaimed fund. I have decided to transfer this money to you as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy collection since nobody is coming for it and I don’t want this money transferred into the government account as unclaimed debt. I have decided to give you 50% of the total sum. There is no risk involved, because I will use my position in the Finance House to present you as the next of kin to the fund. Do send me an immediate mail indicating your willingness to assist in actualising this transaction. Respectfully,James Elvisplease reply to jameselvis@myway.com
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