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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Vincent Donofrio <donovincent02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <donovincent@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:11:50 +0000
Subject: From Vincent 25/09/07



From Vincent 25/09/07
I am Donofrio. A. Vincent ,the Auditor General, Intercontinental Securities Limited. In the course of my auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account which was opened in 1990 belonging to a dead foreigner Late Mr A.C. Nunez , a national of your country. I tried to get any of his family members to notice but have been unsucessful.
I want to transfer the sum of $18.5M,from Intercontinental Securities Limited, in his account overseas. I am therefore writing to ask you that you quietly partner with me and providing an account or set up a new one that will serve the purpose of receiving this fund. Even an empty account can also serve as long as you prove to be honest to me till the end of the deal. I hope you will never let me down. After going through the deceased records and files, I discovered that:
(1) No one has operated this account since 1993;(2) He died without a heir; hence the money has been floating. (3) No other person knows about this account and there was no known beneficiary. And if I do not remit this money urgently, it would be forfeited for nothing.
This money can only be approved to you legally as the beneficiary, Hence I am contacting you. I will require your urgent reply so that I give you the next step, this transaction is 100% safe. Please send me your Private/Direct Phone and Fax numbers so I reach you. I am ready to give you the sum of $7,500,000 ($7.5M) for your assistance and partnership with me.Please for now, I will appreciate if you only email me.I look forward to your prompt.Best Regards,Mr.Vincent
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