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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million british pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Gloria Kwame <gkwame13@yahoo.co.th>
Reply-To: gloria_kwame@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:56:30 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: Deal From London,


Hello,

My Name is Miss Gloria Kwame.
Kindly permit me of my Desire to inform You about This Deal which Has Been Giving me a lot of concern for about Two Years now. Although This Proposal may come to you as a suprise, But I would want you to Understand That This Deal is 100% legal , and risk free.
Though it requires confidentiality, what is of paramount importance is Your transparency and Honesty in all its ramifications. This premise will Afford us conducive ground to actualise the Aim.
The project is simple and sealproof, but you must Exige a lot of financial acumen and overall expertise in economics , as These would Be Advantageous.
If Your convintion is as strong as mine ,please Get Back to me promptly.
My Dear, The deal is concerning my late client who has similar data with you and who hails from your country.This client died leaving the sum of ( EIGHT MILLION BRITISH POUNDS) with our bank,and since then the bank is worried about the fund and the bank has asked me (as the account manager to the late customer)to find any relation of the late customer for claim of the fund. But I know that late Mr Jake died with all his immediate family during the tragedy.This is why I have to conduct a search over the internet to see if I can get some one with similar names so that I will present him to the bank as the late customers next of kin to enable us claim the 8 million british pounds So,I have contacted you because the bank board have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin of the deceased customer or the bank will declare the account unservisable and confiscate the funds to the bank treasury.

Because I would not want the bank to confiscate the fund and since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last 6 years now, I want to seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the late customer , so that the proceeds of this account valued at ( 8 MILLION BRITISH POUNDS) can be paid to you as the late Engineer's next of kin . After the successful transfer I and you will share the money when I come to your country.


Thank you very much.

Miss Gloria Kwame.


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