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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: mrs agnes william <mrs_agnes_william@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:44:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: NEXT OF KIN


Agnes William ASSOCIATES.
CORPORATE ATTORNEYS.
Hall 102, Lane Drive,Chelsea.
London.

Good day Henk,

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be
treated as such. I am Agnes William,a solicitor at law.
I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr Randolf Keizer,
hereinafter referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil
magnate in my country and who died in a car crash with his immediate
family on the 4th of oct,1998. Since the death of my client in oct,1998, I
have written several letters to the embassy with an intent to locate any
of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his
abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.
Moreso,I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a
likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in
line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the
sum of 3.8 million U.S.D.On this note i decided to search for a credible
person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I was urged to
contact you, that I may,with your consent, present you to the "trustee"
bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to enable you
put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client.
I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear a similar last
name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in
that capacity.I propose that 35% of the net sum will accrue to you at
the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incure further expenses.
Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need,
first to contact me via signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain
your confidence,I will immediately appraise you with the complete
details as well as fax you the documents,with which you are to proceed and i
shall direct on how to put up an application to the bank.
HOWEVER, you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will
forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction.
Upon the reciept of your reply,I will send you the next step to take.I
will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free
and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements
have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I said, I require
only a solemn confidentiality on this.

Best regards,
Agnes William



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