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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "this business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • rbrtclcl@aol.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: rbrtclcl@aol.com
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:15:41 -0600
Subject:


Attention: My Good friend,

My name is (Dr.) Robert Cole, I am a representative with the United
Nations Department of International Monitory Unit. I am writing in respect
of a discovery of unclaimed fund in tune of US$15.5M (Fifteen Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) belonging to a late foreign. This
fund is deposited in a Bank in the Spain (name of the bank will be
disclosed upon the receipt of your positive response). The Late Customers
name is Mr. Morris Thompson. He is an American by Citizen who perished in
a plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31
2000; there with him are his wife and only daughter. You shall read more
about the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation;

STUDY CAREFULLY THIS WEBSITE TO CLEAR YOURSELF OF ANY DOUBTS:

{ http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list } Since the demise
of this gentleman, I personally have watched with keen interest to see the
next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his
funds of US$15.5M (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars).

This money has been in a Bank for a very long time. On this note, I
decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin as no
one has come up to be the next of kin. And the Banking ethics here does
not allow such money to stay more than Ten Years, because the money will
be recalled to the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund after this period.

In view of this I got your contact when making a research on a foreigner I
will use in this great opportunity. For your assistant I will give you
40%of the total amount then 10% have been mapped out to be donated to the
motherless babies home, while the remaining 50% will be for me and my
partner.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free
and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for the
smooth and hitch-free transfer of this fund has been finalized, this
transaction will be completed within five banking days of receiving your
positive response.

THE ONLY APPROVED CLAIMING PROCEDURE:-

To ensure a successful consummation of the business, there is need for me
to follow the normal and legal procedure of doing things so that no
country laws will be contradicted. This is 100% risk free as we have no
intention to do anything that will go contrary to the laws of any Nations.

In this regard, I suggest, while I run the cost of procuring the entire
legal document from the judiciary departments of Spain, required to
transfer this inheritance in your names as the beneficiary and in my names
of the guarantor. You also on your own side will ONLY be required to open
an Account Escrow with the Bank in Spain where this fund has been lodged
for the past ten years, so that an internal transfer within the same Bank
will be made to your new account. And with this process no monitory
security Agents will be alerted over the transfer of such huge amount of
money and that will give us a hitch free transfer at the shortest time.
After this, You can make onward transfer from the new bank account to any
other bank account of your choice in your residing country.

Note that I will join you soon this arrangement is completed. Anything
outside this well planned arrangement will not have my approval as this
procedure has been ascertained okay by professional Bankers of repute.. This deal need to be kept 100% top-secret.

If you are interested, copy and send the short red painted e-mail below
together by providing the required information below:

I am interested to work with you and I will comply with the above
procedure. My information are:

(1) Phone Number:
(2) Identification:
(3) Address:

Yours Sincerely,

(Dr) Robert Cole.
REPRESENTATIVE UNITED NATION INTERNATIONAL MONETORY FUND (UNIMF)Please
feel free to contact me on this email below: rbrtclcl@aol.com

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