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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 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.
  • smith_p27@latinmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "peter smith m" <morgansmith272@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:50:45 +0100
Subject: next of kin


FROM: Peter M. Smith
33 Imperial Square
Cheltenham
GL50 1QZ
England, UK

I am Peter M. Smith a Uk Priavte Investigator and Attorney to Mr. Andreas
who died on the 25th of July 2000.Andreas , 64,his wife Maria, 62,their
daughter Andrea Eich, 38,her husband Christian, 57,and their children
Katharina,eight,and Maximilian, 10,all perished in the jet.

Since his death, I have made several enquiries to his embassy to locate any
of my clients extended relatives and this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to look for a reliable
partner and confident whom I can present as the beneficiary to this fund
because I have secured from the probate court, an order of mandamus to
locate and present a beneficiary to claim the funds, hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my
client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Finance
Company which has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since I have
been unsuccessful in locating the relatives, I seek your consent to present
you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account
valued at $16 Million dollars can be released to you.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim
we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing
this deal 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 with your data, which includes: your full name and address
telephone and fax numbers by my alternative email:
smith_p27@latinmail.comto enable us discuss further. Please reply
through this mail box.

I anticipate your urgent response to enable us meet the required date.

Sincerely,
Peter M. Smith
London/UK
Please mailto:smith_p27@latinmail.com <smith_p27@latinmail.com>

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