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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.
• 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.
  • gregewood@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: gregelenders_loan@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:44:16 -0800
Subject: NEXT OF KINS NOTIFICATION

FROM THE OFFICE OF SIR DIKE WILLIAMS, SOLICITORS AND ATTORNEY AT LAW, Friday 01-01-07 , time? Dear ?, I am Sir DIKE WILLIAMS a solicitor at law. Iam the Personal Attorney to Mr.Martin ?,who lived in Nigeria for some fifty years, and who was until his demise. my client based on engagement, entered into with my chambers in 1985. The said Martin ?,who is hereafter referred to as my client passed on january 31 2004, in a fatal plane crash. occupants of the airline including his immediate family unfortunately lost their lives. I contact you to secure your assistance in claiming his estate which includes sums of money left behind by him (Martin) to forestall confiscation and possible declaration of his account as non-serviceable by the bank with whom this money were deposited. Equity Bank where my late client had an account for a value of $8.8 million united state dollars has issued me with notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the funds confiscated and declared abandoned. I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the lodgments of this account valued at $8.8 million united state dollars can be transferred to you by legitimate inheritance provisions as my client's Next of Kin. This sum of money can thereafter be mutually disbursed by an agreed percentage All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of Kin, will be available by my chambers as witness to your status as bonafide inheritor. I therefore solicit your honest cooperation to enable us see this enterprise to finality. I reassure you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me,via gregewood@yahoo.com, to enable us discuss more elaborately.Below are websites with info to the crash. www.atsnn.com/story/31396.html Best regards, SIR GREGE WOOD

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