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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • r_overs2006@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ronnie overs" <r_overs2006@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: r_overs222@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:50:21 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN

Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Ronnie D. Overs of OVERS & ASSOCIATES
UK LONDON. This mail is written and intended to
solicit your assistance to be presented as NEXT OF KIN
to my Late Client. My Deceased Client Willie Jackson
Sr., 61 years, of Scotch Plains, N.J., and Orlando,
Florida USA made a fixed Deposit of Fund valued at
USD15M (Fifteen Million United States Dollars Only)
with a Security Firm here in London and unfortunately
lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which
crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31,1999
(View:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm)and
left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin except some
vital documents related to the Deposit still with me.

The Governing Body of the BANK 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 Government.

For the sake of transparency on this matter, you are
free to make immediate contact with me through my
E-mail: (r_overs2006@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,

Barrister Ronnie D. Overs
Overs & Associates.
41 wirrall house
sydenham hill
london
SE266AK
E-mail: r_overs2006@hotmail.com

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