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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "LANG ROBERT" <rob.lang1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rob.lang2@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:14:28 +0000
Subject: Legal Inheritance

>From the desk of
Robert Lang(Barrister)
Alfa chambers & solicitors
plot 23/25 Ramalleh Cresent
Kualalumpur-Malaysia.

Re: Legal Inheritance:
Attention: Mcintosh

This is to inform you of demise of one Mr. Hu Mcintosh a National of your
country who worked as an oil marchant and a contractor with Malaysian Palm
oil Proccessing Company .The above named person has lived in Malaysia for
over a decade and within this years of existance he had a fixed deposit of
five Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars (US$5.2m) only with a local bank
here(May Bank Limited).
As a result of this incident, the bank has advised that I as the legal
adviser to the deceased that I make known to them the next of kin or sole
beneficiary to the account balance of the Late Mr.Hu Mcintosh claim or the
funds will be decleared unserviceable and confisticated as unclaimed deposit
considering the financial deposit code of conduct to banks as issued by the
Malaysian Government.
I am contacting you based on the fact that you have the same last surename
name with the deceased my late client and it will be easy for me to procure
valuable document to introduce you as theNext Of Kin rather than to allow
the funds be confiscated by the bank ;in addition, please I will advise you
to respond immediately to this letter so that we will make the neccessary
application on your name as the legal inherent to the deceased account
balance.

For more details and explainations please include your telephone and fax
numbers for an urgent correspondence. For your information the late Mr.Hu
Mcintosh died on the 21 day of April 2005 and since after then I have made
all neccessary enquiries to locate his relations but to no avail,this
informed my seriouse considerations to work with you to acieve this proposal
before you,rather than allowing the money be declared public funds by the
bank management.

Thanking you in principles for your anticipated considerations and
cooperations while we keep high level of confidentiality on this
arrangement.
Respectively yours,
Robert Lang.
Attorney-At Law.

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