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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will give you 35% " (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)
• 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.
  • wangqin077@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Wang Qin" <wangqin@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: <wangqin057@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:11:14 -0600
Subject: please read carfully and respond!!


Dearest One,

Compliments of the season to you, allow me to introduce myself, I am the
personal
Assistant to Mr. Wang Qin, Staff of Standard Chartered Bank. I am writting
in
respect
of a Chinese customer of my bank Mr. Zhu Li,dual citizen of China , who died

in a plane
crash on Monday, September 2, 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while he was flying from New

York
toGeneva.

I got your email account while searching for a business oriented personality

in my
private study on the internet.

Please see for more information.


http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html


The late Mr. Zhu Li left in our deposit the sum of seventy five million,
seven hundred
and fifty thousands dollars ($75,750,000.00 million USD) and nobody will
ever
come for
this money because there is no next of kin in his documents.


I am the only person that is aware of this money since Mr. Zhu Li did not
give to my
institution any next of kin to inherit his money. Now, I want to use my
position in the
bank to transfer this money to your country for investment.


if you would reply to this mail of your acceptance of this proposal of
seventy five
million, seven hundred and fifty thousand. I will give you 35% of this
entire
fund
while the remaining 65% shall be for me, I am hoping to get a favorable
response from
you.


Please send an email to my Private email below, so that i will provide you
more details
about this transaction, and how we can successfully carry out this
transaction without
any risk involved. email: wangqin077@yahoo.com.hk


Regards,
Mr. Wang Qin.

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