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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.David Joe" <davejoe05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <davejoe01@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:09:29 -0500
Subject: MERRY XMAS TO YOU



Dear Friend,
Am deeply sorry for the embarrasment this un-notified email might caused you but its a transaction that requires your commitment and it need to be handled in a matured way.

Am Mr.David Joe british citizen and am a personal attorney to Mr. Gilbert Dotson,who used to work with Shell-development Company in UK. Here after, i will be referring to as my client. My client travelled on a personal mission to Iraq about 4 years ago and never returned till now, all effort to reach him proved abortive.

Right now as i am talking to you, he has 8.6 million USD in his personal account with the bank. After so much pressure from the bank to disburse the fund, myself and the personal accountant involved in this case went through some personal search and bought emails with the same last name on the internet and we found yours.

In whichever way you might be related or not related to our client, myself and the accountant would like to remmit this said fund to you personally as the beneficiary since you both have the same last name. Once successfuly done, we will require atleast 40% of the said fund because of our effort to ensure the safe transaction.

All the legal documentations to ensure your claim as my clients Next of Kin would be provided by myself. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us achieve this transaction.
Please get back to me soonest so that i can present you to the Bank directly and i will also furnish you with the official banks website so that you can also reach them directly after rounding up my own assignment.

Best regards and hope to read from you soon.David Joe
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