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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.
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +447024073238 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • williamsthomas201@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "williams thomas" <williams_t01@msn.com>
Reply-To: williams_t200@myway.com
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:07:08 +0000
Subject: BEST REGARDS

PLEASE LET ME INTRODUCE MY SELF TO YOU AS MR. WILLIAMS THOMAS , A BRITISH
ORN JAMAICAN, I WORK WITH DBS BANK LONDON, WHERE I MANAGE PRIVATE CLIENTS
ACCOUNTS, AS A MATTER OF FACT, I HAVE BEEN IN CHARGE OF THIS DUTY FOR 12
YEARS NOW.MY MOTIVE FOR WRITING THIS MAIL TO YOU IS TO IN FORM YOU OF AN
ACCOUNT BELONGING TO MR. ALEXANDER SCHMITZ. WHO HAS BEEN MY CLIENT FOR AS
LONG AS I HAVE BEEN WITH DBS,

HIS ACCOUNT HOLDS THE SUM OF £12.3 MILLION POUNDS THE TRUTH NOW IS THAT
MR.ALEXANDER SCHMITZ. IS LATE, AND I HAVE MONITORED HIS ACCOUNT WITH US FOR
4YEARS NOW, AND TO MY GREATEST SURPRISE, NO ONE HAS COME UP FOR A CLAIM TILL
DATE. FROM MY INVESTIGATIONS AND CONFIRMATION, MY CLIENT LEFT HIS NEXT OF
KIN COLUMN BLANK, AND HAD A SINGLE ON ENTRY VISA INTO THE UK , WHICH IS WHY
NO ONE HAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEPOSIT EXCEPT US AT DBS BANK. HENCE THE NEED TO
GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU AS ONE WHO I CAN PRESENT AS A NEXT OF KIN TO ASSIST IN
REPATRIATING THE MONEY LEFT BEHIND BY MY LATE CLIENT BEFORE THEY GET
CONFISCATED OR DECLARED UNPLAYABLE, AS I HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN LOCATING
A RELATIVE FOR OVER 3 YEARS NOW. PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THE PROCEEDS OF
THIS DEPOSIT VALUED AT £12.3 MILLION POUNDS. WILL BE SHARED AS FOLLOWS: 80%
FOR MY COLLEAGUES AND ME, 20% TO YOU. I HAVE ALL NECESSARY LEGAL DOCUMENTS
THAT CAN BE USED TO BACKUP ANY CLAIM WE MAY MAKE. ALL I REQUIRE IS YOUR
HONEST COOPERATION TO ENABLE THIS DEAL GO THROUGH. I GUARANTEE THAT THIS
WILL BE EXECUTED UNDER A LEGITIMATE ARRANGEMENT THATWILL PROTECT YOU FROM
ANY BREACH OF THE LAW, AS THE FUNDS DID NOT ORIGINATEFROM DRUG MONEY OR
TERRORISM, BUT THROUGH INHERITANCE.

I HAVE DISCUSSED THIS MATTER WITH SOME OF THE BANKS OFFICIAL AND WE HAVE ALL
AGREED TO FIND A RELIABLE PARTNER TO HAVE THIS DEAL WITH, SO THAT THE FUNDS
CAN BE RELEASED TO YOU IN YOUR NOMINATED ACCOUNT FOR SHEARING AFTER DUE
PROCESSES HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED. PLEASE LET ME HAVE YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX
NUMBERS TO ENABLE US DISCUSS FURTHER ABOUT THIS TRANSACTION.

BEST REGARDS.

MR. WILLIAMS THOMAS
TEL: +4470 24073 238
EMAIL: williamsthomas201@yahoo.com

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