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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:

• 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.
  • +447045741699 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "James Scot and Peters Solicitors" <james@peterscot07.com>
Reply-To: oki_cbn@o2.pl
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 00:44:56 +0000
Subject: Notification of Bequest


JAMES SCOT(MANAGING PARTNER)
James Scot& Peters Solicitors
Dear Sir/Ma

Notification of Bequest

On behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the estate of Late Prof Roger Michael Needham, I once again try to notify you, through this medium, as my earlier letter was returned undelivered. I here attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the WILL.I wish to notify you that late Prof Roger Michael Needham made you a beneficiary to his WILL.

He left the sum of One Million Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand British Pound Only to you in the Codicil and last testament to his WILL. This may sound strange and unbelievable to you with the current upsurge in cyber crime and the likes, but it is for 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. Prof Roger Michael Needham, an engineer/Computer scientist who worked as Director, Microsoft Research limited, Cambridge before he died on 1st March in the year 2003 and was patron of the Royal Academy of Engineering and also member of various societies and organizations .

He was a very dedicated Christian who loved to give out. His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life time one of which was the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Late Roger Michael Needham died on 1st March in the year 2003 at the age of 68 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution.

According to him this money is to support humanitarian/philanthropic activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society. Please if this email gets to you as I aHopeful, Endeavour to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time.

In order to confirm that it is the intended person I have on the WILL that got this, I want you to re-confirm the following details to enable me cross-check the data on the WILL in my records.
Your Full Names________________________Address________________________________________Telephone_________________Fax __________Age________________Occupation________________


I await your prompt response,
Yours in Service,
JAMES SCOT(MANAGING PARTNER)
James Scot& Peters Solicitors
England (United Kingdom)
Telephone # :+44 70457 41699

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