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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.
  • +447040115629 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "joe mills" <ukp024@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: akmnsh@yahoo.es
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:30:23 -0900
Subject: Dear Knutson

Millworld Business Consults
8 West Alley Hitchin
Hertfordshire SGS 1EG, United Kingdom
Phone/Fax: +447040115629

Dear Knutson,

I am Joe-Steve Millard, an experienced and proficient financial lawyer. I am
writing you in respect of my deceased client who shared the same last name
with you: Joe Knutson. He made a fixed deposit valued USD$3.8 M,(Three
Million, Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars) on September 2003 for 24 months
maturity, with an intention of investing it in Oil and Gas. Upon the
maturity, this bank made contacts with him but to no avail because
unfortunately, my client along with his family died in the 2004 tsunami
disaster when on vacation.

However, based on the fact that his supposed next of kin(his son), died in
the said tsunami,the bank has contacted me on this matter and have mandated
me to present a next of kin to his fund within 14days or risk confiscation
of the fund by government.
Thus, considering the lack of success in my effort to locate any of his
relatives for over a year now, I hereby solicit your personal consent, to
present you to the finance firm as the family member or relation of the
deceased since you both share the same last name so that in the capacity as
the next of kin to our late customer, we can now put up a legitimate and
official claim on the deposited fund which is now valued at valued USD$4.5
million.

Have it in mind that I would assist you in providing all the necessary
documents relating to the deposited fund whenever the finance company
requested for them.
Thus, I expect you to contact me as soon as possible if you are interested,
for further discussions on this and on how the fund would be shared
afterwards.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours faithfully,
Joe-Steve Millard
MillWorld Business Consults

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