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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:
  • "chambers" (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.
  • steve.chambers@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "office.file2009 Gazeta.pl" <office.file2009@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: davidgoerge@rocketmail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:17:33 +0200
Subject: From: Steve Khumalo [Esq]. (For Trustees)


From: Steve Khumalo [Esq]. (For Trustees)
Managing Partner(Dlamini Chambers)
PRETORIA SOUTH AFRICA
Email: steve.chambers@rocketmail.com



NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST:

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Mr. Edwin
Gabriel,
I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned
undelivered. I
hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the WILL. I
wish to notify you that late Mr. Edwin Gabriel made
you a beneficiary to his
WILL. He left the sum of Five Million One Hundred Thousand Dollars
(USD$5,100.000.00) 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 travelled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or
simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who
wished you good.

Mr. Edwin Gabriel until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society
and
the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers. He was a very dedicated
Christian who loved to give out. His great philanthropy earned him numerous
awards during his life time. Late Mr. Edwin Gabriel died on the 16th day of
February 2007 at the age of 90 years and his WILL is now ready for
execution.
According to him this money is to support his Christian activities (May his
soul rest with the Lord) and to help the
poor and needy.

Please if I reach you 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
date.please contact me on this email: steve.chambers@rocketmail.com

Yours in His service,
Steve Khumalo Esq

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