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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a next of kin / dead customer scam (8 typical phrases found).
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Thomas Malcolm" <robmalcolm01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tomalcom05@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:32:25 +0000
Subject: Anticipating Your Prompt Response

FROM:BARR.THOMAS MALCOLM(ESQ)
3 VERULAM BUILDINGS
Gray's Inn, London WC1R 5NT

Attn:  Sir/Madam,

I am Thomas Malcolm, a solicitor, and the personal attorney to Mr. William Caripides, who works with Kutner Associate in London, Herein referred as my client.

 

On the 3rd of September 1998 at: 11:16 p.m. EDT (03:16 GMT, Swissair Jetliner, with 229 passengers on board bound from New York JFK to Geneva, Switzerland, crashed catastrophically off the coast of Nova Scotia vanishes from radar near Nova Scotia Halifax. My client Mr. William Caripides, and his wife Mrs. Gabriella Caripides, with their only child Peter Caripides, were involved in a horrific flight crash, 215 passengers and 14 crewmembers unfortunately lost their lives in the disastrous crash of Swissair Flight 111.May their gentle souls rest in glorious peace Amen.

 

I have contacted you to assist me retrieving the funds in a certain investment account of his valued at about US$18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only) left behind by my client before they got confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Finance House where these huge deposits were lodged, Since his wife and kid whom are supposed to inherit the fund are also involved in the air-crash and I have been unsuccessful in locating any of my client relatives, I now seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so we can claim this fund together and use some to assist the Tsunami/Kathryna Disaster victims. Upon my receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the necessary modalities. Subject to the confirmation of death of Mr. William Caripides and his family, feel free to visit this website:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/07/swissair.victims.list/index.html

 

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up your claim as the next-of-kin, all I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

 

Please get in touch with me immediately you acknowledge the good receipt of this mail via email or call me on my Direct Phone NO: +44-207-7484402

 

Anticipating your prompt response.

 

Best Regards,

BAR. THOMAS MALCOLM (Esq)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malcolm Chambers, Solicitors & Advocates © 2005 All Rights Reserved

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