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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)
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • kennethdmnc1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Kenneth Dominic <kennethdmnc1@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:54:27 -0600
Subject: ATTENTION NEEDED URGENTLY


Dear Sir/Madam,

I apologise if this mail message does not suit your personal or business ethics.I write with

sincerity to seek your cooperation and assistance to enable me take an opportunity to make a

life time proper investments in the economy of your country.

My name is KENNETH DOMINIC and I am a U.K based attorney.I had a client who was a German

immigrant & property magnate but now deceased.He died with his wife and their two children

in year 2000 in a New York bound Air France concord plane crash.For more information

regarding the crash please visit :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I have been in charge of managing his properties here in the U.K for a long time.There are

some of his properties put out for sale before his death which I monitored and for which

payment has since been made.The proceeds the sale was deposited into his local account

here.As his recognised attorney,his bank has issued me a notice to provide his next-of-kin

within a short time.

The problem is that I have not been able to locate his relatives and which means I have NOT

been able to provide his next-of-kin.The deadline is almost elapsing.I want you to

collaborate with me & assist in repatriating all the money left behind by my client before

it gets confiscated or the account declared unserviceable by his bank Therefore I am by this

mail now SEEKING YOUR CONSENT to present you as the next-of-kin of the deceased so that the

OUTSTANDING BALANCE SUM of this
account presently valued at US$ 15.5 Million dollars can be paid to you.Thereafter we shall

meet and the funds shall be shared between bothof us.We can both agree on a mutually

acceptable percentage to be shared between us.But I hereby propose we share the funds 60/40

percent ratio ( 60%-to me and 40% to you ).

I can provide all necessary information that can be used to back up the process of this

financial claim we are to make.All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see

this deal through.I guarantee that it will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that

will protect you from any breach of the law in wherever you want the funds transfered

to.Trust me, as the attorney to the deceaced I assure that this is a risk-free business.A

swift acknowledgement of the receipt of this email would be appreciated.

All further response to this proposal should be communicated to this private

email:kennethdmnc1@yahoo.co.uk


Sincere Regards,
KENNETH DOMINIC.

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