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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:
  • "million pounds" (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)
  • "there are practically no risks involved" (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.
  • robertwood206@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Robert Wood <robertwxx14@msn.com>
Reply-To: <robertwood206@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:08:00 +0000
Subject: HELLO FROM ROBERT WOOD............



FROM AUDITOR GENERAL,BANK OF SCOTLAND LIMITED,HBOS TREASURY SERVICE,33,OLD BROAD STREET,LONDON EC2N 1HZ. Calvary greeting to you.I am sorry for any embarrasment this mail might cause you as we never meet before.Little information about myself.I am by name Robert Wood.The auditor General BANK OF SCOTLAND UNITED KINGDOM,HBOS Treasury Services,33,Old Broad Street,London EC2N 1HZ.I humbly wish to solicit your immediate assistance in this lucrative business proposition.I need your divine assistance in this confidential matter regarding some funds unaccounted in our bank here in London during the last 2005 business year.I need assistance from a trustworthy and reliable Foreigner whom I will fill in as the beneficiary. Your major role would be to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money and get 30% of the total funds as commission.There are practically no risks involved,the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law,it will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer,all I need from you is to stand as(next of kin) and claim the funds as the decease beneficiary so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account under few working days. I am Mr. Robert Wood the regional AUDITOR of Bank Of Scotland Limited, and I write you this proposal in good faith; I am married with five lovely kids. It is my duty as the regional AUDITOR to send in financial report to my head office in the capital city at the end of each business year. On the course of the last year 2005 business report, I discovered the sum of Twenty six million eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterlings 26,850,000.00. The fund is of clean origin. The owner of this account is a foreigner, a program leader. Untill his death. The Late Prime Minister, Mr. Rafik Hariri. I will provide all necessary information needed in order to claim this money. For the fact you will not let me down in now and in future. ok! Rafik Bahaa Edine Hariri (November 1,1944 - February 14, 2005), was a Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon, and was five times Prime Minister of Lebanon (1992-1998 and 2000-2004) before his last resignation from office on October 20, 2004. The late Rafik Hariri died on February 14, 2004 when explosives equivalent to around 300 kg of C4 were detonated as his motorcade drove past the Saint George Hotel in the Lebanese capital. Our head office is not aware of Funds and will never be aware of it. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary and as an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, hence i contacted you. If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much as you are the first and the only person I am contacting for this particular transaction. We will start the first transfer with sixteen million pounds, upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account. At this juncture i wish to tell you what prompted me to package this deal. I have a 9-year old daughter who has leukemia, disease of the blood, and she needs a bone marrow transplant or she will die. I want this transplanting to be done in any good children hospital in your country if there is one.Once this fund is transferred into your account, I shall resign from my job and bring my family to start a new life in your country.I would be grateful if you would help me in looking out for good investment oppurtunities with my own part of the money in a very profitable business. I have worked for this bank for the past 15 years yet I have nothing to show up out of it.As soon as i receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business proposal,I will furnish you with the necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any conflict.If this proposal is acceptable by you,do not take undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you.I am waiting earnestly to hear from you.Always contact me with this my private email address(robertwood206@gmail.com )YOURS CORDIALLY,Robert Wood

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