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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +448701369855 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • afr7774@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • afr7774@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • afr7774@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Forrest Allen Russell" <forrestallen44@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:16:09 +0000
Subject: Gooday Day!! Urgent Reply Please

Mr. Forrest Allen Russell
Knights Quarter, 14 St. John's Lane,
London, EC1M 4AJ England
TEL/FAX: +44-870-136-9855
E-mail:afr7774@yahoo.co.uk



Compliments of the day!

I got your contact on my private search for a reliable and trusted person
to handle a transaction of this nature. I know that the contents of this
mail might sound so strange, but I want to assure you that every word of
it is true.

I am Forrest Allen Russell a Financial Consultant to a deceased Immigrant
Mr.Andreas Schranner, A German property magnate who was based in the U.K.,
who happens to be my client. On the month of July 2000, my client, his
wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich, their daughter husband Christian,
and their Grand Children Katharina and Maximilian all died in the Air
France concord plane crash AF4590 bound for New York in their plan for a
world cruise,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since then I have been managing his properties here in the U.K. and some
others,which he put out for sale. The properties, which have long been put
out on sale,have now been paid for and now the money paid has long been
deposited into his local bank account here. I have contacted you to
assist in repatriating the money and estate left behind by my client
before they get seized or declared unserviceable by his bank.

Particularly, the bank has issued me with a notice to provide any of his
beneficiaries or have the account confiscated within a short period of
time. My late client has a fixed deposit account valued at (US$35.5
Million) United States Dollars Only . Since I have been unsuccessful in
locating any of my client’s relatives for some time now and with no one
coming forward since my client passed on and with the bank now giving me a
deadline, I now seek your consent to present you as the beneficiary to my
deceased client, so that the proceeds of his account valued at (US$35.5
Million) United States Dollars Only can be paid to you. This I intend we
share amongst ourselves in the ratio of 50% to me and 40% for you while
the balance 10% we shall use for settling any miscellaneous expenses that
might arise.

I have all the necessary information that can be used to back up any Claim
that we may make and I can assure you that you shall be paid this amount
as the beneficiary of the funds of my late client. All I require is your
honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law. Trust me as his personal
consultant that this is a risk-free transaction.

Please get in touch with me via my confidential email:
(afr7774@yahoo.co.uk)

and send me the following information:

1) Your full names and address as you want them used in the payment
documents

2) Telephone and fax numbers.

Upon receipt of this information, we shall discuss further about this
transaction.

Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.

Yours truly,

Mr. Forrest Allen Russell
Knights Quarter, 14 St. John's Lane,
London, EC1M 4AJ England
TEL/FAX: +44-870-136-9855
E-mail: afr7774@yahoo.co.uk

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