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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • kawamartins12@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kawa martins <kawamartins_309@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <kawamartins12@aol.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:56:40 +0100
Subject: INHERITANCE PAYMENT NOTICE




From The Desk: Attorney Kawa Martins Esq.Avenue Voie Romaine Nice, FRANCE.E-mail: kawamartins12@aol.co.uk Attn:I am Attorney Kawa Martins counsel to late (Mr.Allen Cahill) from Canada who works with Zenon Oil unfortunately died on a heart attack in Paris France on the dated 7th July 2005. Since the death of (Mr.Allen Cahill) I as his counsel have made several enquiries to locate his relations to come up for the inheritance claim, without any success. I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for my late client relations/next of kin so I decided to contact you for this project. I am contacting you to assist in securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by my late client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where my late client operates an account The board of Directors of the bank has issued and spread a notice that after 2 months from now and no relation shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable.
Since The board of Directors of the bank have been unsuccessful in locating my client relatives for sometime now, it's on this note that I seek your consent to present you as the relation/next of kin to my late client that the proceed of this deposit can be released into your account. The amount deposited $12.8 Million Dollars also i believed with interest($12.080.000.00 USD) I will agree with you on 50% for you while 50% for me. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law. Upon your response, furnish me with your information as stated in this manner to avoid making any mistake.
Your Full Name: ____________________________________________________
Your Complete Address (Physical Address with Zip Code)____________________
Date of Birth (Day/Month/Year:_________________________________________
Direct Telephone/Mobile Number: _______________________________________
Fax Number:____________________________________Complete the above and send back to me as soon as possible through my private e-mail; kawamartins12@aol.co.uk
As soon as I receive all these information from you I will present it to the Bank Directors that I have locate the relation to my late client since they asked that I should provide the next of kin for them to release the inheritance fund. Please do not hesitate to respond to this mail for our mutual benefit.Yours faithfully,Kawa Martins Esq.

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