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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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• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Henry Parker <h.parker725@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <henryparker.1000@yahoo.com.cn>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 08:05:12 +0000
Subject: Re



I am Henry Parker,Director of Investment management, SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Banking. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and the investment he placed under our banks management three years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail.I am making this contact with you based for a need of an individual/company who is willing to assist me to stand as the next of kin to my deceased client.

Being the deceased financial consultant before his untimely and sudden death and since i am the only one who has the knowledge of the vaulting company in Europe where these funds ($30million) was moved to and can move this deal forward to it's successful end once we conclude to work together.it is a task well worth undertaking.According to practice, the vaulting firm will by the end of this financial quater broadcast a request for statements of claim , failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit back to SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Bank.

What I propose now is that if you are the relative to my client please let me know. I alone have the deposit details and the vaulting firm will release the deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Private Bank is concerned, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process. The vaulting firm has no single idea of what is the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is the situation.

My proposal is that; you share similar details to the late fellow; I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct the vaulting firm to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you.Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit.

I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is for you to betray my confidence.Hope to hear from you soon if you are interested.

Henry Parker
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