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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Patrick Plowman"<nicholo@myway.com>
Reply-To: patrick_plowman001@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:08:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Eager to hear from you










Hello Friend,I am making this contact with you in good faith. I got your mail address while doing my internet searching for a reliable person. I am working with the Natwest Bank PLC, London. My purpose of writing you is to ask for your assistance to provide a virgin bank account or your account that contains little or no money where we can successfully secure the sum of 12.5 million (twelve million five hundred thousand British Pounds). For your information, there is one American business merchant based here in England and his name is Mr Thomas McCulloch.He was the Manager Of petrol chemical service,a chemical engineer by professions, This man died in a plane crash that took place in New York on Novermber 2th 1999 while returning from a business trip in Egypt. He was banking with my bank and I am his accounting Auditing officer. However, since the death of Mr Thomas McCulloch , I have been trying to contact any of his relative in the city of Colorado, his home country
America, through his address with me, to let his people know about his money in our bank but I did not receive any response. I later remembered that Mr Thomas McCulloch came to my country out of shame he was receiving from his country because he was impotent. I am contacting you to stand as the next of kin to late Mr Thomas McCulloch from United State Of America because the Government of my country will pay it to Federal Reserve purse if I should declare to them about this fund. Note that there is no risk involved in this transaction, as I will give you all information you may need about Mr Thomas McCulloch and his banking relationship with my branch to enable you to stand as his next of kin to receive this money in your account. Please if you are interested and capable to carry out this deal with me, reply me through my private email address patrickplowman@yahoo.co.uk.Looking forward to hear from you. Regards, Patrick Plowman.



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