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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:
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • mail_andrewflockhard@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Alexander Andrew Flockhart" <turismo@comunevalmontone.it>
Reply-To: mailandrewflockhard@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:52:41 +0100
Subject: Good day


Good day,
I am Mr. Alexander Andrew Flockhart, Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, I am contacting you concerning our late customer and, an investment placed under our banks management before the Iraq war. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contacted you independently of my investigation and no one is informed of this communication. I would like to acquaint you with certain facts that might be of interest to you. In 2003, Abbas Kadhim, a businessman, also who was with the Iraqi forces and our Client, made a fixed deposit of Twenty four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch, a number of notices was sent to him when it was due, but no response came from him till date. We later found out that the General along with his family had been killed in a bomb blast that hit theirhome, what bothers me most is according to the laws of my country at the expiration of 6 years the funds will revert to the Hong Kong Government if nobody comes for the funds, Against this scenery, I have all the information needed to claim these funds. All I require is your honest co-operation and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect me and you from any breach of the law. Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this email if you do not appreciate this proposal I have offered you. All confirmable documents to back up this fund shall be made available to you, as soon as I receive your reply, I shall let you know what is required of you. Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
Regards,
A.A. Flockhart.
 
You can contact me through my private Email address: mail_andrewflockhard@yahoo.com.hk

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