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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "WILLIAMS"<davidwilliams2004@myway.com>
Reply-To: davidwilliams2010@yahoo.it
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:58:41 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP


Dear Good Friend,I am David Williams,Esq . This mail is written and intended to solicit your assistance to be presented as NEXT OF KIN to my Late Client. My Deceased Client Richard Burson,(77, Venice Isles FL,USA) He made a fixed Deposit of Funds valued at USD 8M(Eight Million United States Dollars Only)with a Bank here in Nigeria.Unfortunately lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31st,1999(news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm) and left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin except some vital documents related to the Deposit still with me. All efforts by me to trace his Next of Kin proved abortive because he did not make any will prior to his death.The Governing Body of the BANK has contacted me on this matter and I am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay claims to the Fund. Based on this, I wish to seek your consent to be presented as the next of Kin so that my late client's fund will not be confiscated by the
BANK or to be misused by corrupt government officials. I propose a sharing formula of 50/50 if you will agree to stand in as the next of kin and have the funds deposited into any account that you will provide. Please make available to me your Phone numbers and fax, your full names and address, your job description and title so that i can get started with the documentations. Thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation.Yours faithfully,David Williams, Esq

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