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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • brettnicolebranchmanager_absa@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: brettnicoleabsa@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:14:06 +0200
Subject: Brett Nicole (Urgent)

BRETT NICOLE
13 MELVIL ROAD
SALTON, JOHANESSBURG.
SOUTH AFRICA.

Dear Sir,

Let not this message come to you as a surprise.
My name is Brett Nicole a Bank Manager of one of the branches of the
Amalgamated Bank of South Africa ( ABSA).

I am prompted to send you this mail out of my direneed of your assistance
in the Business that I am herein to introduce
to you.

I discovered a non resident accountthat has not been operated for more than
13years,this particular account has in it USD$35.5m and belong to one
Mr.Bruno Orwell a German who was a gold miner and had a company
(ORWELL GOLDLINE COMPANY) here in South Africa.

From my findings,this Man Mr. Bruno Orwell is late I
discovered that he died in car crash in Cape Town 16years Ago During
the Apartheid Era in South Africa.

Having gone through the old files,this man never made provision for
the next of kin when the account was opened at this aspect,I became
conscious of Moving the money out and I have Discussed with my Head office
Manager regarding this, and he is very much Game for us to move the Fund
out of South Africa for our use if I can find a foreign Partner who we
can use his name as the next of kin to late Mr. Bruno and get the fund
transferred to his account.

This is why it has become important for me to Solicit for your
Connivance in making this possible.And we have agreed that if you be of
assistance,that we will compensate you with 30% of the Total sum while
we set aside 10% to redeem any expenses that may be incurred by you or we in
the Process of this transaction.

Please if this is acceptable to you, Kindly get back to me immediately
so that we can discuss the modalities of the transaction and note that
this transaction is 100% risk free.

I expect to hear from you soon.
Thank you and God bless you.

Yours Faithfully,

Brett Nicole (Absa Bank)
Email:brettnicolebranchmanager_absa@yahoo.co.uk
Tel : 27 76 466 5363.

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