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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Fredrick Williams" <fredrickwilliams_chambers@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:46:21 +0000
Subject: Assistance Needed...Urgently

FREDRICK WILLIAMS CHAMBERS & CO.
(SOLICITORS, ADVOCATES/NOTARY PUBLIC)
Private e-mail: frerickwilliamschambers@hotmail.com


NEXT OF KIN
=================

I am Barrister Fredrick Williams, of FREDRICK WILLIAMS
CHAMBERS & CO. This mail is written and intended to solicit your
assistance to be presented as NEXT OF KIN to my Late Client, Mr. Edmund
Miller.

My Deceased Client Edmund Miller Sr., 72, West Point,
Mississippi, made a fixed Deposit of Fund valued at USD14.5M (Fourteen
Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) with a
Finance House in Europe and unfortunately lost his life aboard Egypt
Air
Flight 990,which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31,1999 and
left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin except some vital documents
related to the Deposit still in my possession.

The Governing Body of the finance House has contacted
me on this matter and I am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay claims
to the Fund. Under a clear and legitimate agreement with you, I shall
seek your consent to be presented as the Next of Kin so that my late
Clients'Fund will not be confiscated by the Finance House.

For the sake of transparency on this matter, you are free to make
immediate contact to me via my e-mail address:
fredrickwilliamschambers@hotmail.com , for further
information related to this matter.

Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while we expect
your prompt response.

Yours faithfully,

Fredrick Williams Esq.(Senior Partner)
(L.B Hons) B.L PhD.

Note. Send your response to my private
email:fredrickwilliamschambers@hotmail.com


ASSOCIATES:
============
Dr. Byran Smith (LL.B (Hons.), BL., Ph.D) Prof. Aliyu
Hassan (LL.B (Hons)
Barr. Fred William Jnr (LL.B Hons.) Anthony Abraham
(LL.B Hons)

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