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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "nelsondominic_1@yahoo.com.hk" <nelsondominic_1@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:12:37 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Awaiting your response



FROM:NELSON DOMINC.
Coventry Road, Sheldon
Birmingham B26 3PU,
London, UK.
Attention: Sir/Madam,

This letter is not intended to cause any embarrassment in whatever form,
rather, it is intended to contact your esteemed self, following the knowledge
of your high repute and trust worthiness.
Firstly, I must solicit your confidentiality. I know that a proposal of this
magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that it is made in good faith and will be of mutual benefit.

I am Barr.Nelson Dominic (Solicitor.), the personal attorney to Mr. Mike
Scott, who used to work with Multi-Billion Dollar oil Firm in Russia. my
client and his entire family were involved in a Plane crash and all died in
that accident. I have since made several enquiries to your Embassy, in a bid
to locate any relation of my client, and these efforts of mine have not been
productive. I then decided to look for who's ever my mind will trust over the
internet, and came across you which is why I have contacted you to assist me
in securing the money before they are declared as unclaimed and unserviceable
by the Finance House where they have been lodged for safekeeping. I am
particularly interested in securing the fund lodged with a Finance Firm in
Europe with the sum of EU 15:5 MILLION EUROS.

This is because the said Finance Firm has issued a notice to me,
unequivocally
instructing me to produce the Next of Kin /Beneficiary to the said account
within the next ten official working days or have the account confiscated.
Considering my lack of success in my bid to locate his relatives, I solicit
your consent to enable me produce you as the Next of Kin to my deceased
client. The funds will then be transferred to you as the beneficiary and
shared according to a proposed sharing pattern of 25% to you, 45% for me and
25% for charity homes presented by you, while 5% should be for incidental
expenses that Government may required either in your country or mine. I have
all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up the authenticity
of this transaction. I will pursue and obtained all legal documents that
will back up the claim of the fund to you as the next of kin, and I will just
require your understanding/cooperation to enable us achieve success within a
legitimate arrangement, eliminating any liability resulting from any breach
of the prevalent laws.

Best regards,

Barr. Nelson Dominc (Esq.).

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