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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:
  • ",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.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <james10hord@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:42:15 +0000
Subject: I AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE






Hello,

My name is Mr.James Hord and I work with a Commercial Bank here in
malaysia.We had a customer and business tycoon who had a deposit of
3,500,000.00 (Three Million ,Five hundred thousand Pound Sterlings GBP)
before he died in auto crash with his wife and only Child about 8years now
(January 30,2000) and since he died, we in the Bank here have been expecting
his/her next of kin/relative(s) for the inheritance of the deposit, but
none has surfaced.

The policy of the Bank however stipulates a limited time period for such
inheritance to be made or the fund will be written off going by the record
of the incident, the time limit for the claim is closing up Soon for the
next of kin to show up or the account will be closed and i came to have
the knowledge of this account as the auditor in the bank.I happen to come
across this file when i was going through the records.


In this consideration, I am contacting you to seek for your kind
understanding and sincere co-operation to claim this inheritance for our
mutual benefit in view of the fact that you are a Foreigner.If you can
stand as the next of kin in this project,success is assured because I am
in possession of the personal file jacket of the deceased which contains
every needed information about the deceased account, you and I stand no
risk of any kind because I have enough information to support you in
claiming the inheritance.

The proceedings of the transaction will be shared 60% for me and 40% for
you after expenses are reimbursed.Kindly indicate your willingness and we
shall proceed with the initial step for the claim.

The entire project is expected to last for about ten working days.Hope to
hear from you soonest showing your interest and willingness.

Yours Fathifully
Mr. James Hord

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