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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447045709133 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Nelson"<nelson-brown@excite.com>
Reply-To: nelson_b3@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 04:11:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: ATTN, FROM MR NELSON BROWN.


ATTN,My Name is Mr Nelson Brown. I work as an AUDITOR GENERAL in one of the prime Bank here in United Kingdom.On my routine inspection I discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a Balance of ( THIRTY FIVE MILLION POUNDS ONLY}The owner of the fund was a foreigner, an American Citizen who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on January 31 2000. You may read more about the crash by visiting the website. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you,So i want you stand in as his next of kin, now that our bank is still expecting the next of kin or relatives ,if you are interested.At the conclussion of this transaction, your share will be 25% of the total transfer sum, 70% for me and my partner, while 5% will be set aside for any expenses both parties might incure during the process of the
transfer.The fund will be transferred to your account in two parts. I will first transfer 10 Million Pounds to your account as a test of transfer. I will fly over to meet you after the successful transfer and sharing according to the agreed percentages.Let me know if you can handle it by you given me a call on my private number:+447045709133. Best Regards, Mr Nelson Brown.

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