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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • barrybenson556@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barry Benson" <hjjjeksk@me.by>
Reply-To: barrybenson556@live.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 19:22:25 -0500
Subject: Real Opportunity.


Mr. Barry Benson
Permanent Tsb
56/59 St. Stephen Green, Dublin
Confidential Tel: +871-764107753
Confidential Fax: +871-764107751
Email: barrybenson556@aol.co.uk

Hello,

I am contacting you on a business transaction of a huge sum of money
from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.
we decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

We discovered an abandoned sum of (Twenty seven million five hundred
thousand United States dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customer who died along with his entire family. Since his
death, none of His next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay
claims for this money as the heir.

We cannot release the funds from His account unless someone applies for
claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations
will be carefully worked out by us for the funds (Twenty seven million
five hundred thousand United States dollars) to be released in your favor
as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know that we
have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of
the deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of
our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the
following;

1. Beneficiary name and address.
2. Direct telephone and fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favor before
the transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with thirty percent
of the total funds, on final conclusion of this project, while the rest
shall be for us. Your share stays while the rest shall be for us for
investment purposes. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take
undue
advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you.

NB: If you are willing to assist me, including the information's i have
requested from you, call me on my confidential tel: +871-764107753 for
further details and discussions on what to do next.

Note: Please reply to: barrybenson556@aol.co.uk

I await your call.

Best regards,
Mr. Barry Benson.
Confidential Tel: +871-764107753
Confidential Fax: +871-764107751

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