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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "barrister" (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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • martincrayassociates@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: arthegobia@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:33:21 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=20FINAL=20NOTIFICATION?=

FINAL NOTIFICATION


Please confirm your receipt of this mail because previous correspondence
have been sent to you but we did not get any response from you.

Bear in mind that no execution will be carried out without the endorsement
of the office of estate registry / willed transfer officer of a probate
court of law.

On behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the Will of late Engr.Terry
Williams (ksm), I wish to notify you that you were listed as a beneficiary
to the bequest of the sum of US$2.3M [two Million Three Hundred Thousand
US Dollars] in the codicil and last testament of the deceased.

The late Terry Williams until his death was a former Managing Director and
pioneer staff of a big plumbing company in China and later invested in cocoa
and cotton farm. He was a member of plumbing contractors, merchants and
manufacturers association. He established himself as a wealthy farmer in
Africa where he exported cotton and other poultry produce. He was a very
dedicated man and a great philantropist during his lifetime.

Late Terry Williams died on 9th December 2005 at the age of 78.
He has since been buried on the 23rd of December 2005. He was an American
but lived in Africa all through his active years and later moved down to
London due to long term illness where he eventually died in a specialist
hospital.

He therefore advised that this amount be "invested and then part of the
proceeds be used in the work of humanity". I hereby request that you forward
your current contact details and telephone number for further discussion
to enable us file necessary documents of claims at probate registry for
the
release of these funds to you.

Please contact the attorney at law at this email address: Barrister Martin
Cray(llb.Lon)
Email: martincrayassociates@yahoo.co.uk (Martin Cray Associates)

Yours faithfully,
Kan James
(Martin Cray Associates)
Estate of Engr. Terry Williams.

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