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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:
  • "cost of transfer" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • georgepeters56@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: peter george <petergeorge@freenet.de>
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:51:01 +0100
Subject: Hello,


Hello,
I make this appeal with the understanding that any facts or
opinion
expressed by me are giving in confidence and solely for your
personal
information and use,I am Mr.George Peters Auditing and exchange
Staff at
the foreign remittance Unit of my Bank.SGBCI (societe generale
de banques
en cote D\'Ivoire)
However, I am contacting you in order to
ask for your assistance on this
confidential business proposal with full
financial benefit for both I and
you.
Before I go into further details,
please be informed that I am writing
without any other person(s)
pre-knowledge of my contacting you on this
transaction deal.
Therefore I
will appreciate the same attitude to be maintained by you
all
through.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of
US$5.500.000.00, with
account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with
his wife and only daughter in a plane
crash of Alaska Airlines Flight
number 261 which crashed on January 31st
2000.
The owner of this account is Mr. Johnson Wilson an American and
great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska. It is therefore upon
this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you
and for
our bank to release the money to you. As next of kin and You
have to
follow the instruction which I will be sending to you as the
next of kin
or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and I don\'t want this money
to go into our bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.
In appreciation of your
assistance,I am offering you 40% of the total sum.
5% for contingencies
(cost of transfer/other charges) likely to be
incurred during the course
of transaction, while the remaining 55% is for
me. Upon receipt of your
reply, I will send to you by fax or email the
text of the application
which you will complete and forward to our bank
asking for this money to
be paid to you as the next of kin to Mr. Johnson
Wilson.
I will not fail
to bring to your notice that this transaction is
hitch-free and that you
should not entertain any fear as all required
arrangements have been
made for the transfer.
I would like you to forward me the following
informations,
1) YOUR FULL NAMES..
2) COUNTRY OF ORiGIN...
3) YOUR
ADDRESS........
4) YOUR DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER....
5)
OCCUPATION............
6) your AGE SEX

You should contact me
immediately you finish reading this mail via
e-mail:(georgepeters56@yahoo.fr)
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.George Peters





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