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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "first national bank" (not involved with lotteries)
• 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)
  • "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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27782171932 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • 3dpauldubefnb@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:12:55 +0100
Subject: Mr.Paul Dube




*FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA .*=20

*FROM: Mr. PAUL DUBE*=20

*FINANCIAL AUDITOR*=20

MY TEL: +27 78 217 1932=20

EMAIL: paul=5Fdube01@live.com [mailto:paul=5Fdube01@live.com]=20

=20

*Good Day,
*

*I am Mr.PAUL DUBE, a Financial Auditor who work in First National Bank of=
South Africa (FNB}. I have decided to send this proposal to you after som=
e due deliberation. kindly permit me of my desire to inform you about the =
fund transfer of US$18,500,000.00(Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand U=
nited States Dollars) into your reliable bank account as the sole NEXT OF =
KIN to my client, Dr.George Brumley Jr, foreign deceased customer of our b=
ank and a renowned/retired medical doctor/surgeon from Atlanta USA. He ope=
ned a fixed deposit account, under my professional guidance which he desir=
e to fall back no all through his retirement. He was killed with his entir=
e family in a PLANE CRASH in Nairobi Kenya on Monday 21st July 2003.Click =
the website below and find out what happened to the Dr. George Brumley Jr =
and his entire family:
**http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html* [http=
://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html]

*After further investigation as I try to pay his Next of Kin, l also disco=
vered that Dr. George Brumley did not declare any next of kin in his offic=
ial papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. l remember he als=
o confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me k=
new of his deposit in my bank. Right now, Eighteen Million Five Hundred Th=
ousand United States Dollars is still lying in our bank and no one will ev=
er come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the=
financial policy of my country, at the expiration of a numbers of years, =
this funds will revert to the ownership of the South African Government as=
unclaimed funds if nobody applies to claim the funds.=20

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a f=
oreigner to stand as the next of kin to Dr. George Brumley so that I will =
use my power as his personal accountant to make you be able to receive his=
funds as the Next Of Kin. Should you be interested please send me your fu=
ll names, brief description of your occupation, direct telephone and fax N=
umbers and I will prefer you to reply me on my personal e-mail address giv=
en above:*

=20

(paul=5Fdube01@live.com [mailto:paul=5Fdube01@live.com] [http://us.mc504.mail.=
yahoo.com/mc/compose=3Fto=3Dpauldubefnb@hotmail.com]) +27 78 217 1932} I shall=
provide you with more d`etails to the successful completion of this trans=
action after I here from you.Please also note that I am willing to offer y=
ou 35% of the total money for your assistance and partnership with me to e=
xecute this transfer. Your earliest response to this proposal will be appr=
eciated.=20

=20

*Every plan concerning this transaction has been completed. I assure you =
that this transaction is 100% risk free but requires trust and confidentia=
lity. Keep well and God Bless.*=20

*
Kind Regards,*=20

**=20

*Mr.Paul Dube*=20

=20

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