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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.
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447014227511 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • pbrown02@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Peter Brown Esq." <pbrown1@di-ve.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:53:08 +0100
Subject: Beneficiary Of Yuriy Abramovich


Let me formally introduce myself for clarity purposes, I am Peter Brown Esq.
an assistant and private counsel to the late Mr. Yuriy Abramovich a Russian
national who passed on last two years.

I write to inform you that my associate now deceased, who although did not
disclose his ties with you but I believe had in a certain stage of his life
passed through or had dealings with you, made you a beneficiary to an asset
of his, as is stated in his WILL. Your name was specifically put as a
beneficiary to the funds in a special deposit account which Mr. Yuriy
Abramovich operated. This has also been duly confirmed by the bank and also
in certain document in which Mr. Yuriy Abramovich indicated same.

Going by the information as stated, I make this contact to you to ascertain
your existence and also to know if you consent to the matter so stated to
enable me make the required arrangements to have your company as it were
approved of and paid the due amount as stated by Mr. Abramovich.

A response from you will be required to enable me make the submissions to
the executor of the WILL and other quarters so involved in this.

Kindly reconfirm your personal information in the spaces provided below:

*Your Full Name: ----------------
*Address: -----------------------
*City/State: --------------------
*Telephone: ---------------------
*Mobile/Cell Phone: -------------
*Current Occupation: ------------
*Age: ---------------------------

I hope to hear from you immediately.

Warm Regards

Peter Brown
EURO LAW FIRM
Tel: +44-701-4227511
Fax: +44-701-4227512
Email: pbrown02@myway.com

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