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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.
  • moris54brown_anthony@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "moris brown anthony" <moris54brown_anthony@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:26:13 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONCE NEEDED FOR MUTUAL BENEFITS

>From Mr.MORIS BROWN
SHURGARD SAVEKEEPING SECURITY COMPANY
15bis, rue du Plateau
75019 Paris
France
PRIVATE EMAIL
(moris54brown_anthony@hotmail.com)


Good Day sir/madam,
Do accept my apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics, I want
to introduce myself and this business opportunity to you. My name is
Mr.MORIS BROWN a store keeper in SHURGARD SAVEKEEPING SECURITY COMPANY.Due
to the nature of my proposal I enbacked on a random search on the internet
and yelded your email.Please do accept my apologies.
I wish to know if we can work together, I would like you to stand as the
next of kin to my deceased client who made a safe keeping of some family
treasures to my security company here in Erop. He died without any
registered next of kin and as such the treasure boxes now have an open
beneficiary mandate.
I expect that you will be discreet about the transaction if interested,It
would interest you to know that from a personal relationship with the
dieseased I garthered that these boxes contain the amount worth the sum of
$32,000000 (THIRTY TWO MILLION DOLLAS),in treasures and cash.
If you are interested in assistin me as an insider,please let me know so
that I can give you Comprehensive details on what we are to do.
I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.

Best regards
Mr.MORIS BROWN

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