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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)
  • "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)
  • "foreign exchange" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • martinhery002@yahoo.com
  • martin_hery002@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: herymartin02@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:22:48 -0800
Subject: PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL ........................


From Mr Hery Martin
21 route de Maconnex.
Genève 10
BCV bank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
SWITZERLAND
Att:
In order to transfer out (USD 26 M) twenty six million United States
Dollars) from BCV bank, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise SWITZERLAND . I am writing
asking for a reliable and honest person who will be capable for this
important business believing that you will never let me down either now or
in future.I am Mr. Hery Martin , the Chief auditor of BCV Bank { SWITZERLAND
).There is an account opened in this bank in 1990 and since 1998 nobody has
operated this account again. After going through some old files in the
records, I discovered that the owner of this account is Mr.Sheu Yuan-dong
who died with his wife and their only daughter on February16, 1998 in a
plane crash. Please View this website:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/ the account has no
other beneficiary, The said amount is U. S$26.000,000.00 dollars(twenty
Million, US Dollars).I want to first transfer $6 ,000000.00 six million
United States Dollars from this money into a safe foreigners account. If
you are interested forward to me on this my address ;
martinhery002@yahoo.com or martin_hery002@yahoo.com : I will apply for
annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to
act and receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and
influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to
your account with appropriate clearance forms of the ministries and foreign
exchange departments. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses
both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I look
forward to your earliest reply.
Yours truly,
Mr. Martin Hery

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