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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: Andrea Ayim <a_ayim25@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: barristerandrea_ayim@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:55:08 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: About Your Relative Mr G. Ludeke


Dear Jaap Ludeke,

I am sure that the receipt of this mail will be of utmost blessing to you . However sorry to marvel you a bit and take some of your time in going through this unpredicted letter of entreaty for your forbearing and facilitation.

I wish to inform you i was the intimate and entrusted pettifogger of late Mr G. Ludeke,whose life and that of his entire family were lapsed while on holidays in a holidays resort in Phuket Thailand on the 26th of December 2004 in the Tsunami natural disaster. My late client was a merchant in hygienic products via West African Coast tro Thailand as an import and export executive.

I have made several probes here to uncover any of my clients extended/distant relatives, which resulted abortive. After these ineffectual exertions,I decided to search through, with his genealogical names which persuaded me to interact with you, to locate any member of his lineage therefore reason why i channelled this inquest to you. I have contacted you to facilitate in the fund transmittal of total valued at US$6.1 million (Six million,one hundred thousand usd dollars) that was etrusted in this bank by my late client , before it gets expropriate or declared nonfunctionalbe by the bankers here in the country where this huge amount were retained.

The said bank has authorized me with official observations to provide the next of kin or have his account expropriated within the next fifteen official working days.Becuase i have been unable to make this relationalship linkage contact , i wish to seek your carte blanche to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the ditto pedigree's names, so that this fund can be paid to you.So, on receipt of your positive reaction, we will then determine the sharing quota and modus vivendi of the transfer.I have all the necessary credentials/information and legal documents required to legally equipped your claim.
My demands from you is your sincere willingness and motivated spirited efforts to enhance the ascendancy of this covenant. I hereby give you warranty that this covenant will be consummated with all total repute to all statutory pecking order that will protect you from any fissure of all existing charter.

Thanks for your imminent co-operation. May his fragile soul rest in perfect peace Amen!

Best regards.

Andrea Ayim


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