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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 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.
  • michael.holmer1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Michael Holmer" <mholmer@firstcommercialbank.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:45:45 +0100
Subject: GET BACK TO ME FOR APPRAISAL


Attention;

This message will be the last notification that I will send to you as my
earlier letters to you through Post Office was returned undelivered. Hence I
decided to reach you via email because this information needs urgent
attention.


I'm contacting you because you bear the same surname with our deceased
client who died in 2003, and the management of my bank have issued me a
notice to provide an extended next of kin of the deceased or have the
account confiscated within the next 14 banking days.


I am the Telex Department manager of my bank and also the personal account
officer to the deceased, and I will be disappointed if the labour of my
deceased client is confiscated.


So kindly get back to me with your full name and adress for appraisal


Michael Holmer.
Private E-mail: michael.holmer1@yahoo.com

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam