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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:
  • "top of the day to you" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • martin28976731@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Martin Mayer <martin@martinmayer.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 20:38:22 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: YOUR LAST NAME MATCH(IMPORTANT)


MARTIN MAYER & ASSOCIATE, SOLICITORS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,NOTARY PUBLIC WITH
OFFICE AT AINTREE, LIVERPOOL, L30 1RD, UK.
Top of the Day to you.
I am Mr. Martin Mayer (Esq), a member of the Independent Committee of
Eminent Persons (ICEP) charged with the responsibility of finding bank
accounts in Europe belonged to Holocaust Victims, which have remained
dormant since World War II and also the legal counsel to a deceased
Resident Holocaust Victim, who died intestate in the United Kingdom on
the 21st of June 2002 before I could conclude his claims. I urge you read
the following content and confirm your position to me afterwards.
It may interest you to know that in July of 1997, the Swiss banker's
association published a list of dormant accounts, including
interest-bearing savings accounts, securities accounts, safety deposit
boxes,custody accounts, and non-interest-bearing transaction accounts
originally opened since the end of World War II, most belonged to holocaust
victims.
The continuing efforts of the ICEP have since resulted in the discovery
of additional dormant accounts -54,000 in December 1999, amongst these
accounts waiting submission is the dormant safety deposit box account
of my late client whose last name tallies with yours and I have
currently put a hold on it for more investigation before it released to
the Claims Resolution Tribunal for liquidation, given me the much needed
avenue to get in touch with you to see if you can stand in as the
beneficiary to the estates of my deceased client and lay claims to
these funds asthe surviving next of kin to my deceased client before it is
liquidated.
Being an executive at Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP)
and also legal counsel to a deceased Holocaust Victim in question, I am
privy certain key information that will help us keep this sum to
ourselves. The deceased did not have an easily identifiable next of Kin
as I have made several enquiries to locate any of his relatives, this has
proved unsuccessful, After these several unsuccessful attempts, I
decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of
his
family, hence my contact with you. Since I have been unsuccessful in
locating any of his relatives for over two years and convinced that no
one is coming forth, and haven satisfied the mandatory legal requirement of
Beneficiary/next of kin Notification, I now seek your reliable and
trustworthy assistance, and with your consent and perfect
understanding, present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the
proceeds of
this investment, interest inclusive can be release to you as the perceived
Next of Kin, legally and otherwise.
Please provide your full name and address for the purpose of processing
all the necessary claim documents (legal and administrative) that shall
lead to your being named as the beneficiary and subsequent claim
request will lead to the release of the sum to you through a means we
will both decide upon, of which we will be capable of accessing the funds
and transferring it to any other of our choice. I will let you know more
about this only if I hear favourably from you. To response to this
email,
contact me via my private email martin28976731@yahoo.co.uk
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Martin Mayer (Esq),
Principal Attorney, Martin Mayer & Associates.
Barristers, Solicitors, Attorneys at Law.
London, United Kingdom.

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