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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • whitemcmillanm_chamber@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: mcmillanwhite03@comcast.net
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:55:42 +0000
Subject: Notice of Bequest


WHITE MCMILLAN SOLICITORS & Co
99 Old Street
London, EC1V 9DR
England


On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of
Late Engr Luther Schroeder, I hereby attempt to reach you
again by this same email address on the WILL as my first
letter returned undelivered.

Late Engr Luther Schroeder made you a beneficiary to the sum
of twenty two million five hundred thousand Dollars
($22,500.000.00 USD) in the codicil and last testament to his
WILL.According to him this money is to support your humanitarian
activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society.

Until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the
Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers. He was also a
philantropist.

Please if I reach you this time as I am hopeful, endeavor to get
back to me in no distant time through the email address below to
enable me conclude my job.

Email: whitemcmillanm_chamber@yahoo.co.uk

Sincerely yours,
BARR. Michael White (ESQ)

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