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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 us 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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +34634181898 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • juandoingo@breakthru.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: " Juan Domingo"<juandomingo94@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: <juandoingo@breakthru.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:01:28 +0200
Subject: Please respond urgently

30th June, 2009
>From Juan Domingo.

I must first apologize for this unsolicited mail to you. I am aware that this is certainly not a conventional way of approach to establish a relationship of trust, but you will realize the need for my action. My name is Juan F Domingo a Solicitor working with EJC (Estudio Juridico Castellana) with address: C/Caracas Nº 16-5-33B, Madrid 28010 Spain. Actually, I got your contact information from your country's public records while searching for a last name similar to my Late client, a business mogul who had many casinos and restaurants, lived in Spain for many years, On the Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, my client, his wife and their one child were involved in a plane crash in the Madrid airport. You can confirm through this website: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4368631n

My client has a deposit of $7.3M (SEVEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in a bank in the United Kingdom, following my letter to the bank immediately after the death of my client, The bank has mandated me as his personal lawyer to present any family heir/inheritor for claims, before the fund gets confiscated or reverts as unclaimed fund. Since then I have been searching for any of my late client's relative which has been very difficult for me, as he did not declare any other person, address, partner or relatives in the official paper works of his deposit. I will not like you to involve any third party in this transaction, just me and you, besides I am doing this on my own personal capacity and do not wish to bring my office into it.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to my late client since you both share the same last name so that the fund will be transferred to you. With my position as his lawyer, I will now place your name as the next of kin to my late client. I will prepare every relevant document that will assist your claims, Note that this transaction is 100% risk free; I have worked out all modalities to complete the transaction successfully. Once the fund is transferred to your account, I propos 40% for you and 10% for any expenses we may incur and 50% for me. If this proposal does offend your moral values please pardon me otherwise reply via my private email: juandoingo@breakthru.com or you can call me on Tel no: +34 634 181 898 for further clarification. Please be kind to get back to me even if you are not interested so that I can further my search for another partner.


Best Regard,

Juan F Domingo (ESQ)

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