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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 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.
  • mrcharlesadila@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: charles adila <admanagecharles@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mradilacharles@excite.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear Harry


Dear Harry,

I am Mr Charles Adila,Manager of UniBank Ltd Kaneshi Branch Accra Ghana.An American Gold Merchant Mr.Thomson Anslinger Deposited $6.600.000.00 in our Bank in March 2001 and died in April 2003.

The Bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccessfully in locating the relatives for over 2 years now and the Bank has already issued me the final notice last week to find the next of kin
to Mr Thomson. I seek your immediate consent to present you as the next of kin of Mr Thomson because you have exactly the same last name with Mr Thomson so that the proceeds of this account valued at $6.600.000.00 can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money.I assure you that i make available all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up
any claim we may make and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Please if you are ready to do this transaction send to me your full name and private phone number through my Private email address:
(mrcharlesadila@hotmail.com) so that we can proceed before it will be late for us.
I am waiting for your reply as soon as possible.
Mr.Charles Adila



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