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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)
• 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.
  • mulala27@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "sam mulala" <mulala748449@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:04:34 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY!!!

From: Sam Mulala
E-mail: mulala27@yahoo.com
 
Good day,
 
I am Sam Mulala, a personal financial Adviser to Dr. George W.Brumley from Atlanta, U.S.A who used to work as a Government Contractor in South Africa. Referred to as my client. Died in a plane crash with his entire family in Kenya, East Africa in the Year 2003. Since then I have made several enquiries here to locate any of my client’s extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful.
 
I want you to visit the website below for more information about the Plane
Crash:
 
http://www.wral.com/news/2345844/detail.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
 
 I therefore made further investigations and discovered that in the bank documents, where he is to fill his next of kin, George W.Brumley Before his death filled in his wife JEAN BRUMLEY as his next of kin but unfortunately, the wife died along with him and Others, therefore, there is nobody left behind to claim the fund of Dr. George Brumley as his next of kin that is why I am contacting you and am proposing That we carry this deal together. To assist in repatriating the fund valued at US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars) left behind by my client before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank. The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated or donated to charity homes (Which I know is lie) within the next twenty one official working days.
 
In order to avert this negative development, I will like to seek for your Permission as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Dr.George W.Brumley So that the fruits of this old man's labor will not be in vain, all documentation and paper work will be in place for the successful conclusion of this deal.
 
All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
 
Please get in touch with me through the above email or give me a number to reach you for more details for more details concerning the clarity of this deal.
 
Sincerely Yours,
Sam Mulala

 

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