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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)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "here in london united kingdom" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "million british pounds" (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)
  • "here in united kingdom" (this email uses bad English)
  • "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • hhenning3605@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3ahhenning3605@jmail.co.za

Fraud email example:

From: "Henning Hansen Esq." <hhansenesq42@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 06:27:00 +0800
Subject: From the Desk of: Henning Hansen Esq.


From the Desk of:
Henning Hansen Esq.
HenningHansen&assiciates
4 Davy Avenue Know hill Milton Keynes MK 5 8NL
E-mail: hhenning3605@jmail.co.za

Reference # GLS./LEGALH//PRO/PRCDRE 2312


Dear Friend,


This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be

treated as such. I am Henning Hansen Esq. a Denmark national, I have

live and worked in London United Kingdom for 13 years with my family

which I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. McCoy

Meyers of Dublin Ireland. Herein after referred to as " my client" I

represent the interest of my client killed with his immediate family in

a small plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota on October 25, 2002 and I

will like to negotiate the terms of investment of resources available

to him. My client was a contractor to British National Petroleum Co-

operation (BNPC), and had left behind a deposit of Fifteen Million

British Pounds Sterling only (£15,000,000.00) with a bank here in

United Kingdom where I am presently residing.

The funds originated from contract transactions he executed in his

registered area of business. Just after his death, I was contacted by

his bank to provide his next of kin; reasons being that his deposit

agreement contains a residuary clause giving his personal attorney

express authority to nominate the beneficiary to his funds. Unknown to

the bank here in London United Kingdom, my client had left no possible

trace of any of his close relative with me, making all efforts in my

part to locate his family relative to be unfruitful since his death.

Note down from my clients own story, he was only adopted and his foster

parents whom he lost in 1976, according to him, had no possible trace

of his real family. By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his

immediate family, I am very much aware of my client's financial

standing. I do sincerely sympathize the death of my client, but had

thought it unprofitable for his funds to be submitted to the government

of this country and the finance institution where the fund is lodged.

On this note, I decided to search for a credible person and I was urged

to contact you to put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next

of kin/will beneficiary to my client, so that the proceeds of his bank

account valued at Fifteen Million British Pounds Sterling only

(£15,000,000.00) can be paid to you, before they get confiscated or

declared unserviceable to the bank where this huge deposit is lodged.

Note that this is legal and 100% risk free.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement

that will protect you from any breach of law. As I said, I require only

a solemn confidentiality on this. Please get in touch via my

alternative email hhenning3605@jmail.co.za, for better confidentiality

and if okay by you, send me your full name and address, telephone and

fax numbers to enable us discuss further on this transaction and also

to enable me go to the high court here in London and secure all legal

documentation on your behalf to enable you get the legal backing to the

claim If this proposal is acceptable by you.
I am looking forward to your understanding and co-operation.

Kind Regards.
Henning Hansen Esq.
HenningHansen&assiciates
4 Davy Avenue Know hill Milton Keynes MK 5 8NL
E-mail:hhenning3605@jmail.co.za <E-mail%3Ahhenning3605@jmail.co.za>

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