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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.
  • sourtamilu8@yahoo.ie (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JUSS WALACE" <jusswalace@yahoo.ie> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:24:41 +0400
Subject: Best Regards

Dear Sir,
I am Mr Juss Walace,branch Manager of Bank Austra Creditanstalt Banking Group Limited of Wiedner Hauptstrasse 32 Postfach 39 A-1041 Wien.Austria. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.A PUAPA NEWGUINEAN Oil
consultant/contractor with the Singapore Solid Minerals Corporation by name, Mr.Kenneth Valu made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for five [2] calendar yrs, valued at US$5, 000.000 (FIVE Million Dollars) in my branch and upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
After three months later,I sent a reminder and finally discovered from his
contract employers, the Singapore Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr.Kenneth Valu died in a plane crash in 2003 and the moment I got this information ,I went through his account opening papers in order to alert his NEXT-OF KIN for claims but to my greatest dismay discovered that he did not fill the colum specified for NEXT-OF-KIN.
Furthermore,I did not stop at this but rather investigated through PUAPA NEWGUINEA high commission in Austria and finally discovered that that Mr Kenneth Valu did not have any no relation.
In liu of the above, I want to front you as NEXT-OF-KIN to Mr Kenneth Valu hence no one will ever come forward to claim this money except I who is an insider and please be rest assured that there is no risk at all as all the paperworks for this transaction would be perfected by an International attorney and my position as the branch Manager Guarantees the successful and speedy execution of this transaction
If you are interested, please reply immediately through e-mail address,sourtamilu8@yahoo.ie so that we will discuss on the sharing ratio
Await your reply
Best Regards
Juss Walace

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