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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2216645671 (Senegal, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Renny Williams" <rennywilliams@rediffmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rennywilliams@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:07:25 +0000
Subject: If you can?

Attn:Please,
I am so very sorry if I pried into your privacy but due to your honesty, I am convinced that you would be capable to provide me with a solution. I am Mr. Renny Williams of Will's Consultant, Dakar Senegal. I am writing in regards to my late client Mrs. Jessica Costa,a single mother of two and successful businesswoman from your country who base here in Senegal. She died unfortunately with her two kids in an air mishap in July 2002.

The reason I am contacting you is to work with me to effect claim of her deposited assets valued at US$15M before it gets confiscated by the Netherlands Government. The Netherlands Debt Management Office (NDMO) has written us,her Consultant and issued a final notice to provide any of her relatives for payment or have the assets channel to the Government Treasury as unclaimed fund within the next 5 working days. Since there was no relatives or Next of Kin left in our record, I seek your sincere consent to present you as her only surviving relative, so that this funds can be declared to you in Netherlands as I' ve been unlucky locating any of her relatives. My aim now is to usher you in legally as her relative since you are of the same Nationality so that the fruit of her labour will not just be in vain.

Therefore, on receipt of your Expression of Interest (EOI),I have agreed that you will inherit 45% of this fund for your help and sincerity,45% for me while 10% is for the refunds of legal processing and your travelling expenses to the Netherlands prior to the successful handover of the funds to you in Netherlands. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.

Please urgently call or reply if you can visit the DMO in Netherlands.

Best Regards,
Mr.Renny Williams (MD)
Will's Consultant, Rue 2x Av. Malick Sy,Dakar Senegal.
Tel:+221-664-5671

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