419 scam: "(Mcmilliams Williams"<root@sknvibes.com> ^RE: FIND 1 NEW MESSAGE

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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 uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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.
- mcmilliam.office1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "(Mcmilliams Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mcmilliam.office1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:16:01 -0700
Subject: ^RE: FIND 1 NEW MESSAGE

We act as solicitors to and our services have been retained by Late Ken Campbell, now late here in after referred to as our client and Our instructions to the following effects that is to say: On behalf of My client,I wish to notify you that he made you a beneficiary to his will.He left the sum Of Ten million Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds.(10,950,000.000) 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 Traveled 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.My client was born on December 10 1941 and died on August 31 2008. at the beach at the age of 66. He was born in Ilford, Essex, South London;the only son of Colin Campbell, a Liverpudlian Irishman who worked for ITT, the commercial cable company,my late client until his death he He was a writer, director and monologist, Lo
ndon, A member of several non-gov
McMilliam Williams Solicitors & Co.Chartered (MW)E-mail Address:Please E-mail to this Office immediately you receive this message with the E-mail address below :mcmilliam.office1@gmail.com

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