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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "mr_john_marrs02@yahoo.com" <john_marrs11@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: mr_john_marrs02@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:39:08 +0100
Subject: From: Mr John Marra.


From: Mr John Marra.
#31 Council of Churches
P O Box 62098 Marshalltown
2107 United Kingdom

I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a
relationship. I Mr John Marra, the personal account officer to the great
late Deceased who has an account in one of the top banks here in London,
United Kingdom.The account was opened in 2002 and he died in 2004 without a
written or oral WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account
again hence the money is floating, and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited for nothing, and Government of United Kingdom
will confiscate The funds for their personal use which I personally don't
want such incident to happen being that this is a great opportunity in my
life.

My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund
{£52,954,000.00} from a Cooperate Bank here in UK to an oversea account.
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.This is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly Confidential. I am sure and have
confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of
this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the
said amount into your safe account for onward investment.You can either
provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account
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 of this
important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never
let me down in future because this business is my life.

The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary
and until his death he was the manager of the company. My investigation
through the National immigration department and Ministries here proved to me
as well that he was single as at the time of his entry into the United
Kingdom. As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad
for investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the
management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct
information to this account which I will give to you immediately, We will
start the first transfer with Thirty Two Million {£32,000,000.00}.

Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of {£20, 954,000.00} to
your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money
cannot be approved to a local person here due to law in United Kingdom. At
the conclusion of this transaction, your total share will be 40% of the
total transfer sum,while 60% for me and my partners who is helping in
makeing this sucessful.

If you are interested, please forward the following information as below:

information as below:

{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,
{2} Bank Name:............ ..........
{3} Bank Address.....................
{4} Account No:......................
{5} Swift Code...{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name: ....................
{7} Your telephone Number. both Home, Office & Cell/Mobile and fax
Numbers.........................
{8} Your Occupation..............
{9} Your Valid ID ...................

Upon the receipt of the above details, payment will be Activated by the
feeding of your data into payment system, followed by a signal that will be
sent to the paying bank to remit the funds into your nominated bank account
within 7 official working days of receipt of the above information.

Best Regards,
Mr John Marra,

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