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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Mr Simon Kommoh <simonkommoh7@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: mr_simonkommoh@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:26:39 +0900 (JST)
Subject: PRIVATE AND URGENT.

PRIVATE AND URGENT.

I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a hugh sum of money from a dormant account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.
PROPOSITION
I discovered an abandoned sum of S$11,725,000.00 (Eleven Million Seven Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers. This very account has been dormant for over 5yrs now. Since his death, nobody has come forward to lay claims to this money
and recently a probate order has been issued and as such if nobody comes for the claim the account will be declared unservisable and the funds called to the goverment treasury.
In other to avert this negative action, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the funds to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message; In acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following.
1. Your Name.
2. Postal Address.
3. Date of Birth
4. Telephone and fax numbers
These information will enable me work on the account file so that you can now apply for the release ans the kin of the account holder. We are going
to share the total sum on final conclusion of this project on a 50:50 ratio.
If you are truely disposed and capable of handling this with me, reach me immediately.
Regards

Mr Simon Kommoh



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