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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.
• 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.
  • bruce.freeman@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Bruce Freeman <freeman12@live.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:42:43 -0800
Subject: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY



Hello,
My name is Mr.Bruce Freeman. What I have may be of interest to you. Itis a business proposal that will be beneficial to you and I. I live inLondon. I am 41 years old and I have been working in a bank in London for the past 17 years where I am presently an accounts Manager. I will giveyou the full details about this transaction upon your response to this email.

My aim of contacting you is to solicit your co-operation and assistancebased on one of the accounts under my management containing 18.5 Million(Eighteen Million & Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) which has remained dormant for a period of time now.

This account was owned by the late Mrs.Stephanie Bouchard, and following my investigation, I found out that she died with all her entire Family (two boys,one girl and her Aged husband) during Hurricane Disaster.

I will inform you more on how we can get the money from her account transferedinto your account as the Beneficiary if you agree to co-operate with me on this in your reply to this email.
Kindly treat this as confidential, urgent and of utmost importance.

Please respond only via my email. (bruce.freeman@yahoo.co.uk)

Bruce Freeman.
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