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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • ",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)
  • ",500,000" (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.
• 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.
  • favorssmark@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mark davies.c" <daviescmark@mailbox.hu>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 07:13:43 -0700
Subject: From The Desk of the Vice President


From The Desk of the Vice President
Custody and Clearing Dept
HSBC Bank Plc 24th Floor
8 Canada Square, London E14 5hq
www.hsbc.co.uk
Email: favorssmark@hotmail.com

PRIVATE AND URGENT.
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money
from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make you apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will
be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency
of this transaction.
PROPOSITION;
I discovered an abandoned sum of US$11,500,000.00 (eleven Million five
hundred thousand united states Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire family.

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to
lay claims to this money as the heir. I cannot release the fund 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, I 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
me for the funds to be released in your favor as the beneficiary's next of
kin.
It may interest you to note that I have secured from the probate an order of
mandamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt
of this message in acceptance of my mutual business endeavor by furnishing
me with the following;
1. Beneficiary name and address.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.
3. Your place of work name (if any)

These requirements will enable me file a letter of claim to the appropriate
departments for necessary approvals in your favor before the transfer can be
made. I shall be compensating you with US$3,000,000.00 (Three Million United
States Dollars) on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be
for me. Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for me for
investment purposes.

If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me only through
myconfidential email address: favorssmark@hotmail.com and the private phone
number I shall provide in recipient of your response to my proposal. This is
because my official lines are not totally secure lines as they are
periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our
Total Quality Management Policy. You can as well click on this link below
and click on my names on the page to know what I am talking about.

http://www.hsbcnet.com/hsbc/home/contact-us/europe/united-kingdom

Please observe this instruction religiously. I send you this mail not
without a measure of fear as to what the consequences may be, but I know
within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and
riches never come easy or on a platter of gold.If this proposal is
acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed
in you, I await your urgent mail.

Regards,
Yours Truly,
Davies C. Mark
S.V. President, C.C.D

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