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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:
  • "because it still remains the fastest medium of communication" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: scott jons <scott01_90@msn.com>
Reply-To: <codgood@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:14:33 +0000
Subject: WITH DUE RESPECT !!





ALPHA BANK LONDON
66 Cannon Street
LONDON EC4N 6EP

Attn,

RE:TRANSFER OF GBP168,559,000.00 MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business.Though,this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However, confidence. At first I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and trouble free to both parties. In order to transfer out GBP168,559,000.00{ One hundred and sixty eight million five hundred and fifty nine thousand pounds } from our bank here in London. The fund for transfer is of clean origin. The owner of the fund is a foreigner,a program leader who was believed to acquire the fund through his secret Crude Oil deal with the Former IRAQI government.

The deceased died with all the members of his family in an auto-accident in June 23,1999 without a WILL. I want to transfer this money into your account as the foreign beneficiary of the fund. I know that this letter will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before, BUT BE SURE THAT IT IS REAL AND A GENUINE BUSINESS. I CONTACT YOU BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ME DOWN ONCE THE FUND GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c is a foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL attached to the account ,no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the claim of this money. It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are interested, therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction. This money will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not transfer the fund out to a foreign account.

[1) Bank name..........
(2) Bank address.......
(3) Account#.............
(4) Account name........
(5) Swift code............
(6) Your full name........
(7) Your full residential address....
(8)Your private Tel/fax numbers...

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide will ensure a smooth transfer of the fund to the account which you are to nominate is already in place.You should provide me with your correct account information for the transfer and your direct cell phone lines for easy communication. I wish for utmost confidentiality in handling this transaction. At the successful transfer of the fund to your account, you will take 40% of the total transfer sum while 60% will be for me and my partner.

Let me hear from you URGENTLY for more detail. You should contact me at my private email address at ( codgood@msn.com )

Regards,
Mr.Scott Jons

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