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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)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "u.k " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • marthinshugo@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "marthins Hugo" <marthinshugo@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:47:17 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION


* TOP SECRET
#**934 Martin Drive
Manchester, MI 48158
LONDON
U.K
Dear Friend,
My name is Martin Hugo ; I am the director of operation Safe Trust
Investment LONDON, UK. I know this letter will come to you as a
surprise but I want you to understand that my contacting you is divine
because I
want us to do this business deal together. I got your contact from
international
brochure and decided to contact you for this simple business deal
considering
the fact that you will help me in the actualization of this great business
deal.
I am contacting you concerning a fund valued $15,000.000.00 (Fifteen Million
US
Dollars) deposited with our affiliate bank by our late esteemed customer
late
Mr. Faik
Ayaz, a Turkish citizen and contractor residing in Iraq. He moved this money
from Iraq to LONDON for investment. He went back to Iraq to bring his entire
family to LONDON from Iraq but he died in a bomb blast with his entire
family.
Click on this page below to read more about the money and the bomb blast:
**http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm>
*

Since I got the information about the bomb blast and the death of our
customer,
I felt bad because from my adequate investigation I gathered that all his
family
members were involved in the bomb blast there by living nobody to claim the
above mentioned fund. Based on this I contacted you to act as the cousin,
relative or next of kin to our late esteemed customer. I will give you
information's of the fund which you will use to apply for the release of the
fund to you as the cousin and next of kin to the deceased customer. This
business is risk free; nobody will suspect you coupled with the fact that I
will
give you all the informations of the fund which will prove to our affiliate
bank
that you are related or next of kin to the late depositor. Upon the
successful
release and transfer of this fund to your account we will share the money
60-35%
respectively, while 5% will be set aside to reimburse expenses that will be
incurred during the transfer of the fund to your account.

Finally, be mindful that nobody here knows that I contacted you for this
business deal. To this effect you should please keep this letter
confidential
whether you are interested or not because if any body here discovers that I
gave
you this information I will definitely lose my job and enter into a big
problem.
You should signify your interest to do this business deal with me by calling
me
on my telephone number above or my private email address for security
purposes.
This business deal will not last more than 7 days you signify your interest
to
work with me to actualize this golden opportunity. You should contact me on
my
telephone number above or my private email address
for more details
:**marthinshugo@rocketmail.com*<http://us.mc524.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=marthinshugo@rocketmail.com>
*I anticipate your swift and immediate response.
Sincerely yours, *

*
DR. MARTHIN HUGO *

Anti-fraud resources:

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