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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Elsie Klimmeck" <elsie_klimmeck@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: elsie.klimmeck@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:58:08 +0800
Subject: Attention Sir/Madam,

Attention Sir/Madam,

It is my great pleasure to contact a reliable and God fearing person and
having gotten your contact through intercessory prayers and painstaking
efforts,I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes.

My name is Mrs.Elsie Klimmeck.I was a Former Senior Financial Consultant
with Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) Malaysia. I am 64 years Old Woman
and a Citizen of Switzerland. I was also married with two children.My
husband and my two children died in a car accident six years ago.

Before this happened, my business and concern for making money was all I
live for. I never really cared about other values in life. But since the
loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist
helpless families. I have been helping orphans in Orphanage/Motherless
Homes.I have also donated some money for humanitarian needs in
Indonesia,India,Philippines,Vietnam,Laos and some other countries.

Only recently I saw on television the colossal loss of properties and
livelihood people in Canberra, Australia through fire. I was moved with
great pity and compassion that I decided to make this contribution on
assisting people over there,I kept a sum of US$10,500,000.00 United States
Dollars in a Long-term deposit account in a Mutual Trust and Finance
Company.

Presently,I am in a hospital in London where I have been undergoing
treatment for Oesophagi Cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my
doctors have told me that I have only few months to live. It is my last wish
to see this money distributed to victims of the fire outbreak in
Canberra-Australia and other Charity Organization.

Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my
illness, I cannot live with the agony entrusting this huge responsibility to
any of them.

Now,I want you to help me claim and retrieve the deposit from the Finance
Company and transfer it into your personal account and distributes it
accordingly.Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 10% of it to
yourself.

Please indicate your interest if you are willing to help so that i can give
you my personal attorney's contact information who is handling this
transaction.

Your Sincerely,
Mrs.Elsie Klimmeck.

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