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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 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.
  • collinsedwardesq2@yahoo.no

Fraud email example:

From: goodheartfinanciers <luk.kunc@seznam.cz>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:15:43 +0100 (CET)
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?FINAL=20BEQUEST?=

MANAGING PARTNER
COLLINS EDWARD & ASSOCIATES
LONDON - UK.
NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late
Engr.Gregory Effenberg; I once again try to notify you as my earlier
letter returned undelivered.

I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the
WILL. I wish to notify you that late Engr.Gregory Effenberg made you a
beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Fifty Million One Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($50,100.000.00) to you in the codicil and last
testament to his WILL.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and
true.Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with
you in the past or simply you were recommended to him by one of his
numerous friends abroad who wished you good. Engr. Gregory Effenberg until his
death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of
Electronic & Electrical Engineers. He had a very good heart and loved
to give out.

His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life time.
Late Engr. Gregory Effenberg died on the 12th day of March, 2006 at the
age of 80 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution. According to
him this money is to support your humanitarian activities and to help the
poor and the needy in our society. Please if I reach you this time as I am
hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me
conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time through the
email address below.

Email:collinsedwardesq2@yahoo.no
Yours in Service,
COLLINS EDWARD ESQ.

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