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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.
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • vctr_ta1@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Victoria Tay" <ubxdiamond3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: vctr_ta1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:36:02 -0500
Subject: YOU ARE THE NEXT OF KIN

Dear Partner,

My name is Mrs. Victoria Tay, a solicitor at-law; I was a personal attorney
to one of my late clients Mr. Wayne, he worked with a multinational Oil &
Gas company here in United Kingdom and shares the same last name with you.
In summer 2001, Mr. Wayne, his wife and their three children were involved
in an auto-crash while returning to London from France on a holiday trip.
Unfortunately, all occupants of the SUV they were traveling on lost their
lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to his embassy to locate any
of his extended relatives and this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name
over the Internet, to locate any exact matched surname and that was how I
found your contact email address.
My deceased client had an account balance with a bank valued at about
£4.9million, I have contacted you to assist in receiving the money left
behind by my client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by
the bank and I have been issued a notice as his attorney to provide his next
of kin or have the account confiscated.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating my client's relatives; I now seek
your consent to present you as the next of kin of my deceased client since
you have the same last name so that the proceeds of his account £4.9million
can be paid to you. You and I can then share the money 60% to me and 40% for
you. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this
project through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate/risk-free arrangement that will protect you and me from any
breach of the law.
I await your positive response that MUST include your private telephone
number; I will call to discuss this matter if it interests you. Be advised
to reply strictly via my private email address: vctr_ta1@yahoo.co.uk
Best regards

Mrs. Victoria Tay.
vctr_ta1@yahoo.co.uk

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