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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: John morris <johnmorrisoffice2007@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: john.morris.2007@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 16:05:51 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: kindly attend to this mail in good faith


Dear Beloved Friend,

I crave your indulgence to kindly attend to this mail in good faith. I do not mean any disrespect by approaching you through this medium, it is due to the urgency of the matter. I am Mr. John Morris, a private financial consultant here in the UK, A personal financial consultant to Late Mr. Frank Thompson, an American businessman who died with out a Will. He died with out a WILL thereby leaving no one as his next of kin to lay claim to his Estate and money deposited in one of the commercial banks here. I have made several enquiries to locate any of his relatives but this has proved unsuccessful.

After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives to locate any member of his family, Hence I am contacting you to assist in securing the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable,Before his death, he had a domiciliary account valued (£10.5M) British Pounds GBP with a commercial bank here. The bank has since issued a notice that I provide the Next of Kin or have the account confiscated within the next one month.


All I require is your honest cooperation and trust to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law as i already have all legal documents and prove regarding the said money. 10% of the total amount will be offered to you if you can complete this transaction with me.


Please get in touch with me immediately through email and indicate your interests to enable us discuss more details and start the process with out any further delays. Kindly include your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.

Best regards


John Morris


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