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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • adamsscott67@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: adams scoot <adamsscott101@live.co.uk>
Reply-To: <adamsscott67@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:22:04 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN



Good day, I am Mr. Adams Scott, a Manager with Broad Street Cahoots Holding & Finance Ltd in London. On June 6, 2000, a consultant with Exxon Mobil oil company in Malaysia, Mr. Alfred Carlson made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, to the tune of £14,000,000.00(Fourteen Million, Pounds Sterling) in my branch.

Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, I wrote a reminder and finally I discovered from his employer, Exxon Mobil Corporation that Mr. Alfred Carlson died in an explosion while working on one of their oil rigs in Malaysia. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL. I therefore made additional investigation and discovered that Mr. Alfred Carlson did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit papers in our possession.

The sum of £15,000,000.00, which represents Capital and Interest on the deposit, has been carefully moved out of my bank to a security company for safekeeping. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to our Banking Act of 1990, at the expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. I would want you, as a person to stand in as his Next of Kin. You will then be entitled to the deposit. I will prepare all the paper work and necessary documents involved and as the manager of the branch and custodian of the deposit, I will ensure that all the documents regarding this Money reflect your name as the next of Kin to Late Mr. Alfred Carlson.

I want to assure you that there is virtually no risk on your person, as you will not be made to appear in person, and all the paper work will be prepared in your name by me. I will share the money with you in the ratio 35:5:60: 35% for your effort, 5% for logistics, and 60% for me. To achieve this: you will first of all, assure me that you will maintain strict confidentiality on this information and must assure me that you will not make away with the money when it gets into your possession.

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details.

Please reply to my confidential email address: adamsscott67@yahoo.co.uk

Awaiting your urgent reply.

Regards.Adams Scott

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