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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • mark_williamdesk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mark william" <m_william02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mark_williamdesk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:30:27 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF REQUEST

From: Mark William, Esq.(For Trustees)
Managing Partner(Hartwig Chambers)
London - United Kingdom.

Notification of Request.
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of
Late Mr. Edwin Gabriel, I once again try to notify you
as my earlier letter was returned undelivered. I hereby
attempt to reach you again by this same email address on
the WILL. I wish to notify you that late Mr. Edwin
Gabriel made you a beneficiary to his WILL.
He left the sum of Nine Million One Hundred Thousand
Dollars(USD$9,100.000.00 ) to you in the codicil and
last testament to his will.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it
is real and true. Being a widely travelled man, he must
have been in contact with you in the past or simply you
were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends
abroad who wished you good. Mr. Edwin Gabriel until his
death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the
Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers.
He was a very dedicated Christian who loved to give out.
His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during
his life time. Late Mr. Edwin Gabriel died on the 16th
day of February 2005 at the age of 90 years, and his
WILL is now ready for execution.
According to him this money is to support your Christian
activities and to help the poor and the needy. Please if
I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me
as soon as possible on this email address
[mark_williamdesk@yahoo.co.uk]
to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant
time.

Yours in His service,
Mark William, Esq.

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