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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "first national bank" (not involved with lotteries)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • muller2021d@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MULLER CHRI CHRI <muller1_82@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <summer2001d@yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:01:33 +0200
Subject: FROM: Mr. Chris Johnson.


FROM: Mr. Chris Johnson. AUDITOR GENERAL First National Bank 6th floor, 1 First Place Cnr Simmonds & Pritchard Street Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa Reply to this e-mail: private [muller2021d@yahoo.ca] Attn: RE: TRANSFER OF of US$168,559,000.00(One hundred and sixty eight million five hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S dollars only}.TO YOUR ACCOUNT In order to transfer out USD168,559,000.00{ One hundred and sixty eight million five hundred and fifty nine thousand U.S dollar Only } from our bank here in South Africa. The fund for transfer is of clean origin. The owner of the fund is a foreigner, a program leader who was believed to acquire the fund through his secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQI government. The deceased died with all the members of his family in an auto-accident in June 23, 1999 without a WILL. The amount involved is USD168,559,000.00 I want to transfer this money into your account as the foreign beneficiary of the fund. I know that this letter will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before,BUT BE SURE THAT IT IS REAL AND A GENUINE BUSINESS. I CONTACT YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ME DOWN ONCE THE FUND GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. At the conclussion of this transaction,your share will be 35% of the total transfer sum,60% for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for any expenses both parties might incure during the process of the transfer. The fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first transfer USD 38 Million to your account as a test transfer. I will fly over to meet you after the successful transfer for sharing according to the agreed percentages. I will have the remaining balance of USD130,559 Million transferred to your account only after the successful sharing of the first transfer without any disappointment from your side. I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide your safe bank account information for the transfer. All arrangement that will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to nominate is already in place.You should provide me with your correct account information for the transfer and your direct cell phone lines for easy communication.I wish for utmost confidentiality in handling this transaction. Let me hear from you URGENTLY by Email me. Best Regards,Mr. Chris Johnson
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