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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)
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • ",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)
  • "is 100% risk-free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • ctoby44@praize.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Christopher Toby <chrisa444@msn.com>
Reply-To: <christopher.toby@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:55:38 +0000
Subject: Your sincerity is my concern



London, July, 2008
Dear friend,

I presumed that all is well with you and your family. Please let this do not be a surprise proposal to you because I got your contact information from the international directory in few weeks ago before I decided to contact you on this profitable business opportunity. Moreover, I have laid all the solemn trust in you before I decided to disclose this transaction in details to you, hoping that you will give me your desired co-operation to utilize this God-sent opportunity.

I am Mr. Christopher Toby, an accountant working with hsbc bank and I have had the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of Eight Million, Five hundred thousand US dollars (US$8,500,000.00) for our success. This is an abandoned sum that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers, Late Rudi Fassancht, a bundesliga football trainer who died in an ill-fated air flight in 2000.

Meanwhile I was very fortunate to come across the deceased file when I was arranging the old and abandoned customers’ files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2008.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations which were signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of 8 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the HM Treasury as an unclaimed fund.

As an honor and advantage bestowed to our foreign customers base on the rules guiding hsbc bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a British citizen, you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the deceased. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to Late Rudi Fassancht.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, {39%} will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered
during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,{ 52% }will be my share being the co-coordinator of the transaction while the rest { 9% } will be shared to the respectable Organizations Centers such as Charity Organization, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World as a mark of God's gratitude for this blessing.

This kind of opportunity is not what comes two times in someone’s life so I want to take advantage of it to the best of my ability. I regret to tell you that all my years of service, working with hsbc London as accountant, I have nothing to show for it, no savings, nothing. Added to this, is that I have a 12 yrs old daughter suffering from severe Leukemia ill-health which has defiled orthodox medical treatment, but I had received advise to take her for alternative medical treatment; the problem is that I don't have the money, so I really need this fund.

Please, contact me and promise you will not change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund has been confirmed into your account.

Besides you should not entertain any fear because I am sure of the success as an insider in the bank ok. This transaction is 100% risk-free.
Please reply with the assurance, include your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.

Anticipating your swift response.

NB: Please send your reply to my private email ( ctoby44@praize.com )

Sincerely Yours,Christopher Toby

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