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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "foreign exchange" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "=?utf-8?q?Mr.=20Paul=20Adams?=" <pauladams605@yahoo.in>
Reply-To: vision2010project@mailbox.co.za
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:18:20 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Confidential Business Proposal, Please read and Reply.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: pauladams605@yahoo.in



Mr. Paul Adams

Auditor General

International Commercial Bank

Accra-Ghana.

- Attention,I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to overseas account ($45,000.000.00 USD) forty five million United States Dollars from International Commercial Bank here in Accra-Ghana. I want to ask you, If you are not capable to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in the future. I am Mr.Paul Adams, presently promoted to Auditor General of the International Commercial Bank. During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 2000 and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account Dr.David Clemeston died without a hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is an American by name Dr. David Clemetson a Doctor and great industrialist and a resident of Seattle State, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane, crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2003, including the entire Clemetson family of Seattle: Dr. David Clemetson and Carolyn Clemetson, and children Coriander, 8, Blake, 7, Miles, 6, and Spencer, 6 months old leaving nobody to claim the money . No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, you can visit this site on the internet for verification:http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/eeg/cache/seattletimes.nwsource.com/vict_20000202.html. the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the account is a secret account. The total amount involved is ($45,000.000.00 USD) forty five million United States Dollars and we wish to transfer this money into a safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, but to a foreigner who has information about the account, which I shall give to you upon your positive response.I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law The bank official will destroy all documents of the transaction immediately you receive this money leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, I am ready to share the money 50/50 with you.I look forward to hear from you. Regards,Mr. Paul Adams.

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