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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • paulbencole@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Paul Cole <paulcole1978@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <paulbencole@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:58:41 +0100
Subject: A WILL



Hello,
Please, kindly take your time to understand the content of this email.
I wish to introduce you to a project that would be of immense benefit to both of us. Being an executor of wills, it is possible that we may be tempted to make fortune out of our client's situations, when we cannot help it, or left with no better option.
The issue I am presenting to you is a case of my client who willed a fortune to his next-of-kin. It was most unfortunate that he and his next-of-kin died on the same day in an auto-crash. I am now faced with indecision about who to pass the fortune to. According to the English law, the fortune is supposed to be bequeathed to the government.
However, I don't belong to that school of thought which proposes that the fortune of unlucky people be given to the government. I therefore seek for your assistance in presenting you as next of Kin to the deceased being that you share the same last name with the deceased.
Please give your response to this email via return email. I will reveal other details upon your response to this email and as soon as we establish correspondence.
Reward is negotiable.
Yours in Service
Paul Cole Esq.Financial Attorney paulbencole@yahoo.fr
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