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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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Tony Morgan" <tony_morgan01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrtony_morgan@myway.com
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:07:01 +0000
Subject: Hello

Dear Friend,

This correspondence refers;I am an attorney to late Mr. Andrew Carlson, who
used to be a private contractor with the Shell Development Company in
Nigeria, On the 1st of Nov. 2002, he was involved in a car accident along
Lekki Penussula express road, in which he lost his life.Mr Andrew had an
account valued at about $10.5 million US dollars in finance company and the
finance company management has issued me a notice to provide his next of kin
or have his account confiscated within the next ten official working days.

After several unsuccessful attempts to contact his people, I decided to
contact you to assist me in repatriating the money and property left behind
by my client since you can stand as the next of kin to him to aviod this sum
get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the finance company where it
was deposited.

If you are interested, let me have your contact phone number so that we
begin this transaction.I have all the necessary legal documents that can be
used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us see this transaction through.

I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with
me urgently through my Email.

Best regards,
Tony Morgan.



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