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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • sir_w_morgan@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sir WILLIAM MORGAN" <w_morgan21@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 05:06:54 +0000
Subject: "VERY URGENT, PLEASE READ THROUGH AND GET BACK TO ME"

First Direct Bank
London-Uk

Email: sir_w_morgan@yahoo.co.uk


My Dear sir/madam,
I am Mr.William Morgan, Branch Manager of FIRST DIRECT BANK LONDON, UNITED
KINGDOM.
I made up my mind with trust to contact you for an urgent and very
confidential business, knowing fully well that we had no previous dealings.

On the 9th of July 2002, Mr. Micheal Foster a foreign Fiber Optics
consultant here in London made several times huge sum (Fixed) deposit valued
at US$7,800,000.00 (Seven Million eight hundred thousand
Dollars) .Upon yearly maturity, I sent a routine notification to his
forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and
finally we discovered from his contract employers that he lost his life with
his wife and his only son in the Bomb Blast at Kingcross underground Station
while on holiday tour with his family.

You can Click the news link below for
highlite:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8492258 / On further investigation, I found
out that he made no WILL outside his immediate family, and all attempts to
trace his relatives was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation
and discovered that Mr. Michael Foster did not declare any nxt of kin or
relations in all his official documents, including his Bank
Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$7,800,000.00 is still sitting
in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at
the end of each month. No one will ever come forward to claim it. At the
expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will be reverted to the bank escrow
account if nobody applies to claim this fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foriegner to stnd in
as the next of kin to Mr.Michael Foster so that the fruits of this Man¡¯s
labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt top officials of this
bank. This is simple as long am here to direct and provide you with every
information required. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this
transaction will be done by the Attorney and my position as the Branch
Manager guarantees the successful execution of
this transaction. Once the fund is approved and released to your account,you
will be entitled for 50% while 50% remains for me.

Please feel free to provide me with your full names, address and direct
teephone and fax number while we employe the service of an Attorney from
drafting and notarization of the will and to secure and prepare affidavit of
claim in your favour includind letter of probate/ administration so which
will put you in place as the next of kin. If you are interested, please
reply immediately . Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more
details and relevant documents that will help you
understand the transaction. All i want from you is honest and trstworthy.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this
trnsaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require
your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply.on: sir_w_morgan@yahoo.co.uk

Best Regards.

Mr.William Morgan

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