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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:

• 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.
  • alsm2000@portugalmail.pt

Fraud email example:

From: "aa ss" <as00000000002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alsm2000@portugalmail.pt
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:27:28 -0900
Subject: TO YOU.

Compliment dear,

Do you know late Dr. Jonathan Mann once a human right activist on HIV/AIDS
who died with his family in Swissair crash in 1998? The CNN webpage below
will tell you more about my client anyway;
http://www.cnn.com/health/9809/03/dr.mann.profile I was his personal
accountant while I was working with Barclays bank Plc here in London, United
Kingdom.

My proposition to you is to seek your aid in partnership to present you as
the next-of-kin of my late client, so that BARCLAYS BANK will pay you the
sum of US$30 million into any bank account you are going to provide. Then we
will share the amount on a mutual agreed-fifty/ fifty percent to enable me
use part of my own share to carry out my wife kidney transplanting surgery
operation. This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.

However, if you are willing to save my wife soul kindly get back to me ASAP
to enable me give you the details/ operational method on how to proceed with
this project. This venture will establish a verbal telephone communication
to each other and this will bring you into a much better picture of the
deal.

PLEASE DIRECT YOUR REPLY TO MY SECURED EMAIL; alsm2000@portugalmail.pt

I wait to hear from you.

Yours,
Mr. Alex Smith.

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