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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 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:
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • semiwills@skim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Semi Williams" <semiwills@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:02:35 +0000
Subject: My sincere greetings to you dear Buerger

Dear Buerger,

Compliments of the season,

I do not know you but I decided to contact you seeking whether you can be of
immediate assistance, so do not feel bad receiving my mail.

I am Miss. Semi Williams fiance to late Mr.Billy Buerger, who lost his life
in a ghastly road accident on 14th January 2005.

My fiance was a contractor in Ghana before he died, but he Deposited the sum
of $35m in a finance company I want you to stand as his next of kin so that
this money will be delieverd to you as the new beneficiary because I am not
in position to lay claim to the fund because we were not legally married as
at the time of his death.

The problem now is that his attorney has been served notice that the Finance
company want to confiscate the funds if he fails to provide next-of-kin to
my late fiance within the next 2 months, but please bear in mind that
everything will be handled legally by his attorney Barr.Frank James to avoid
any breach to the law, we have also decided that the sharing modality for
the fund shall be 30% for you, 30% for the attorney while the remaining 40%
will be for me.

I will be looking forward to your indication of interest so that we can
proceed with the processing of claim for the funds with the information you
will provide as stated below below,

1 YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
2 YOUR CONTACT MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.
3 YOUR MAILING ADDRESS.

Yours sincerely,
Semi Williams
Reply on my private email
address: semiwills@skim.com

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