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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.
  • +447024051411 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: WILLIAMS DUKE <williams_duke35@msn.com>
Reply-To: <williamsduke70@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:55:29 +0000
Subject: THANK U



FROM = MR WILLIAMS DUKEPHONE = +44 702 4051411 HELLO,I am contacting you today for a profitable business prosposal. My name is WILLIAMS DUKE . I am a personal friend to late MR ANDREAS SCHRANNA.ANDREAS SCHRANNES was an estate and property magnate from Germany but resident here in the UNITED KINGDOM. ANDREAS SCHRANNES died recently in a plane crash with the whole of his family in a world tour cruise. Find more news in this website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Apart from being his personal friend I was also his confidant . I was therefore in a position to know all his Financial transactions as he trusted me . LATE MR ANDREAS SCHRANNE had a deposit of usd$40.5 million with a famous security and finance company here which i want you to help me receive and transfer into your bank account Till i come over to join you for sharing and investment as you may direct me. IF you agree to assist me ,I will give you all the details of the transaction and the process of receiving the funds because you will act as the next of kin to LATE MR ANDREAS SCHRANNE. For assisting me in this business you will take 30% of THE USD$40.5 MILLION as your share and I will take 60% as my share while the remaining 10% will take care of the expenses we may incure at the process of the transaction. You will keep my share for me till I join you in your country a few weeks after the transfer is made.I want you to understand that I am not a dishonest man. I am only doing this because if the security company discovers that Mr. ANDREAS and all his relations are dead ,they will turn over the money to government and this will not help me. Please note that there is no risk in this transaction as no relation of Mr. ANDREAS is alive today and the security firm does not know he is dead yet. When you transfer the money the security firm will assume it is Mr. ANDREAS' next of kin who is doing the transer because I will provide you with his letters of administration to empower you as his next of kin. It was when I learnt of his death that I went to his room to search for the paper works [Documents] relating to the said deposit and I found them in concealed [secret] drawer in his bedroom. Please reply this message soonest if you are interested or call me on the above phone number for detailed discussions. Yours sincerely,WILLIAMS DUKE.

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