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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 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:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • officemail55555@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kelvin smith <officemail55555@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: kelvin_smith1122@sify.com
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:18:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: BE MY TRUSTED ONE


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: officemail55555@yahoo.ca

>From the desk: Barrister Kelvin Smith (Esq)

The principal Attorney/partner to Late Engr. Paul

Erick Siersted.

33,Bury complex cotonou,

Republic of Benin.



Attn:Pls,



I am Kelvin Smith, a solicitor of Hans chambers and personal attorney to late Engr. Paul Erick Siersted, a Danish national.I decided to reach you via your e-mail address, which is most confidential than normal postage.



I wish to notify you that my client died at the age of 62 in the year 2004 after suffering from desophagi cancer. He had two children and wife who died in a plane crash on Jan. 31, 2000, off Oxnard,Calif.: Aboard Alaska Airways flight originating in Puerto Vallarta,Mexico, and scheduled to stop in San Francisco and then Seattle, crashed in the Pacific. All 88 people aboard killed including the (wife and children), website:http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0801250.



Late Engr. Paul Erick Siersted who passed away on February 8, 2004 at

the age of 62, was a philanthropist who touched lives of people, left the

sum of Fiften million ($15,000,000.00) to a person with a Netherlands address. But unfortunately for over a years the person could not be traced as the address he gave in his last testament is the address of Catholic Monks. The information is that the person does not exist. Every other instructions in his last testament has been executed accordingly with exception of the ($15,000,000.00) which is kept in the finance company.



In view of the above information of the non existing person the Monk, and since both of you bear the same surname/last name, you are the person who can assist in getting the fund out. I will provide and generate other document from the probate for the 100% free from law and success of the deal. We shall distribute 30% of the entire fund to charity and split

the remaining 70% in the ratio of 50/50.



Please if I reach you as I am hopeful endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable the immediate execution to avoid loosing the sum to the finance company. I will also need your full names and contact address to enable me generat all the needed documents on your behalf, Your private telephone number is also needed for easy communication and to explain the deal well to you. Hoping to hear from you as urgent.



Regards,

Barrister Kelvin Smith Esq.




- kelvin smith

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