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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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Roger Weston" <rgwstn5@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: rogerwestn1942@excite.com
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 19:34:57 +0800
Subject:


One Temple Quay
Bristol, BS99 7AX
United Kingdom


Good Day,

To save you sweet preliminaries, I wish to be more business like and say
that I work with United Kingdom's Bristol and West Private Bank. Being a
member of the vetting and probing panel on inheritance, I wish to ask if you
can stand the gap as a partner who can assist me in receiving funds as a
next of kin to a deceased client of my bank.

I have studied these funds for over a year now, which is in the tune of
sixty million Great Britain pounds sterling, and I need an honest and
trustworthy partner who can handle the release of the inheritance.From all
indications and investigations conducted by the bank the deceased client did
not provide a next of kin. I make bold to assure you that this venture is
risk free and will be completed in 14 working days if there is strict
adherence to the steps my years of service to the bank will dictate. I am
willing to use my position here at the bank to the maximum to ensure the
release of this inheritance. Also, I will provide the necessary logistics to
give us a legal backing. I am offering a share of 50% of the inheritance if
you assist in securing the release of the funds.

Kindly provide me with your full names, private telephone and fax numbers so
I can furnish you with the necessary detail towards the actualization of
this venture for the both us. Contact me only through the numbers I will
provide for you. I do not want any direct link between you and myself. My
official lines are not secured lines as they are periodically monitored to
assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management
Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously.

Please, I am a family man; I have a wife and children. I send you this mail
not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences may be. Nothing
ventured is nothing gained; success and riches never come easy or on a
platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private
banking clients.

I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you find no
interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I will also
advise that you keep this personal as possible.

I await your positive response.

Thank You and God Bless.
Roger Weston.

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