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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)
  • "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.
  • ahmed_hashi04@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: ahmed_hashi04@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:48:57 +0100
Subject: Your earliest response is urgently awaited.


*FROM MR. AHMED HASHI.
THE CHIEF AUDITOR (ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC).
36 ST ANDREW SQUARE, EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM.
**ahmed_hashi04@yahoo.com* <ahmed_hashi04@yahoo.com>
*TELEFAX:+448700 885 445

GOOD DAY My Friend,

REQUEST FOR £10,MILLION. FUND TRANSFER.

Is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am Mr. AHMED.
HASHI, the director in charge of auditing and accounting Unit of Royal Bank
of Scotland I and my colleagues deem it fit to contact you regarding to a
transaction that will favor both of us at the end, and I got your contact in
my search for a reputable and reliable person to help me claim the fund in
question.

We discovered the sum of Ten Million pounds (£10.000.000,00) belonging to a
deceased customer of this bank. The fund has been lying in a suspense
account without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the account
owner late Deceased Customer,who was involved in the December 25th plane
crash.
Here is the air crash

**http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html*<http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html>
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The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foreign account whose owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased
customer of the bank. Since you have the same name with this deceased
customer you can easily make this deal with us, we will assist you to get
the information of the deceased customer that will assist you to get every
proof document which will help you to execute this money.

The foreign account owner will impost himself as the next of kin to the
deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin who wishes to speed
up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If the over due fund if
not claimed by the end of next quarter, the government of the Great Britain
will take over the ownership of the fund in line with the Federal Edict Act
of 1979.We do not want the government to take over the ownership of this
money, that is why I contacted you for us to do the deal together, so that
we will portray you as the bonafide next of kin to the Deceased Customer .If
you accept to carry out this project with us, we will offer you 40% of the
total sum, while I and my colleagues involved will take 60% of the total
sum. Upon your acceptance to do this deal with us, we will jointly effect
the transfer within seven working days.

Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk and no extra
responsibilities on your part, except the above mentioned roles and normally
you will be required to maintain absolute information and absolute secrecy
throughout the duration of this transaction, because discussing it with a
third party might jeopardize the entire transaction.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and me from any Breach of the law. Note, I
recommend that you send your response together with your full information to
my most private mail: *

*ahmed_hashi04@yahoo.com* <ahmed_hashi04@yahoo.com>* for confidential
reasons and because of my position here in the Bank. Also send to me your
most private telephone number to enable me call you for more explanation if
the need arises. Thank you and have a blessed day.

Your earliest response is urgently awaited.

Best Regard,
MR. AHMED HASHI.*

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