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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:
  • "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)
  • "you will be given 30%" (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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "foreign exchange" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447035909461 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • djauditor7@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Daniel Jones" <auditordj110@mailbox.hu>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:20:21 +0100
Subject: From Daniel Jones


*Hello,
I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to
treat it serious. We want to transfer to overseas account($30,000.000.00
USD) Thirty million United States Dollars) from a prime Bank here in London.
I want to ask you, If you are not capable to quietly look for a reliable and
honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even
an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain
honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and
believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in the
future.
I am Mr. Daniel Jones, presently promoted to Auditor General in one of the
banks here in London. During the course of our auditing last week, I
discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 2000 and
since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through
some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account
died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit
this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is an American and a great industrialist and a
resident of Alaska State, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane,
crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2003,
including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the money . No
other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that the account is a secret account. The total amount involved is Thirty
million United States Dollars only[$30,000.000.00] and we wish to transfer
this money into a safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any
foreigner; I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot
be approved to a local person here, but to a foreigner who has information
about the account, which I shall give to you upon your positive response.
I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me
down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am
contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform
you the next step to take urgently. I need your strong assurance that you
will never let us down, me and a key bank official who is deeply involved
with me in this business. I guarantee you that this transaction will be
executed under alegitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach
of the law The bank official will destroy all documents of the transaction
immediately you receivethis money leaving no trace to any place. I will use
my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer
of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 30% of the total amount,70% will be for us.
PLEASE,TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET. I look forward to your earliest
reply to my private email address:
**djauditor7@yahoo.co.uk*<djauditor7@yahoo.co.uk>
*Best Regards
Phone, +447035909461
Daniel Jones*

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