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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.
  • nicholasgreaves24@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: nicholasgreaves@UniFish.de
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:30:17 +0200
Subject: Anxiuosly Awaiting Your Response

My name is Mr. Nicholas Greaves and I work with a Financial Firm(dynamic finance & securities ltd london) here in London - UK. Affiliated with City Bank London - 1 Cabot Square, London, E14 4QJ United Kingdom, We had one Mr.Duke Avery,customer that had a deposit of US$18.3M (Eight Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) before he died in a plane crash with his wife and only Child about 6 years now (January 30, 2000) and since he died, we in the Bank here have been expecting the Next of kin/relative(s) for the inheritance of the deposit, but none has surfaced.

The policy of the Bank however stipulates a limited time period for such inheritance to be claimed or the fund will be written off. Going by the record of the incident, the time limit for the claim is closing up. In this consideration, I am contacting you to seek for your kind understanding and sincere co-operation to claim this inheritance for our mutual benefit.

If you can stand as the next of kin in this project, success is assured because I am in possession of the personal file jacket of the deceased which contains every needed information about the
account and the deceased so you and I stand no risk of any kind because I have enough information to support you in claiming the inheritance. I guarantee this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

The proceeds of the transaction will be shared 50% each after expenses are reimbursed. Kindly indicate your willingness through this email address - (nicholasgreaves24@yahoo.dk) and we shall proceed
with the initial step for the claim. The entire project is expected to last for about ten working days.

NOTE: For the process to take off in ernest, Please send to me your FULL NAMES/ADDRESS, PRIVATE TELEPHONE OR CELL PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS for easier communication as more details will follow up. Your
complete BANK COORDINATES (ACCOUNT DETAILS) for immediate remittance of the money is also required.

Best Regards,

Nicholas Greaves

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