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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.
  • +447024098865 (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.
  • abrahamjohnsonpartnersco@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <abrahamjohnsonpartnersco@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:13:20 -0400
Subject: confidential or Legally protected. !

Abraham Johnson Partners & Co.
13 Dale House
London SE162PT
United Kingdom
TELL: 44-702-409-8865
TELL: 44-702-407-1139
email: abrahamjohnsonpartnersco@yahoo.co.uk

Attention:
Dear Partner,

I am Mr. Abraham Johnson, a private financial consultant

staying in United Kingdom. I have decided to contact you on

a Business at hand that will be very beneficial to both of

us at the end of the transaction.

I was working for a client who has an account for the past

16 years, where he deposited the sum of 25.5 twenty-five

Million five hundred thousand US Dollars. His name is late

Mr. Morris Thompson an American who died on Alaska Airlines

Flight 261.More details about the deceased himself, you can

check through this web

links:http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines

list

I am the only one who happens to know the details of this

money and the bank where this money has been kept. It is

now some year since the death of my client. I will need

your help to get this money out of the bank as the business

partner or the Next of Kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson.

I have monitored closely the situation in the bank. Now,

having monitored this deposit over the years after his

death, nobody has showed up as the next of kin for the past

years.

I shall provide you with all the details that will make it

possible for the bank to transfer the whole amount to your

account. You will be expected to let me know what

percentage will be good your assistance in making this

business a reality. Consider this and get back to me as

Soon as possible. We shall employ the services of an

attorney for drafting and notarization of

probate/administration in your favor for the collection of

the money.

A bank draft or check will be written in your favors to

enable you cash the money from any bank of your choice, or

an account in any part of the world that you will provide.
We shall then facilitate the transfer of this money to you

as the beneficiary next of kin. Finally, it is our humble

prayer that the information as contained Herein is accorded

the necessary attention.

I expect your urgent response if you can handle this

project.

Yours truly,
Mr. Abraham Johnson
For Abraham Johnson Partners & Co.
Email: abrahamjohnsonpartnersco@yahoo.co.uk

This communication, links contained herein, is for the sole

use of the Intended recipient and may contain information

that is confidential or Legally protected.

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