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

Fraud email example:

From: Muhammad Jeffery Charles <muhamma.jefferyc@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <muhammad.jefferyc@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:11:29 +1200
Subject: Urgently Needed







Dear Friend,

My name is Barr. Muhammad Jeffery Charles, I am a legal practitioner with Wong Tong Law Firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I
saw your contact and profile i decided that you could cooperate with me
in this proposition.I have a client who was deceased in March 12,
2001, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.I am contacting you because you have
the same surname as my deceased client and i felt that you could help
me in the distribution of funding that were left in my deceased
client's bank account.

This funds is closed to be declared
UN-serviceable by the bank as there were no indicated next of kin or
next of beneficiary of the funding in the bank account.

The bank
had issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin of my
deceased client for either to re-activate the bank account or to make
claim of beneficiary of the funding in the bank account, with a month
surcharge of 6% to be deducted as an Escrow safe keeping fee of the
bank account,so as to avoid the indefinite closure of the bank account.

My
proposition to you is to seek your consent, and to present your kind
self as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my deceased client, since
you have the same last name with him.

This means that the
proceeds of his bank account would be paid to you as his next of kin
or the legitimate beneficiary. When the proceeds in his bank account
are paid to you, we would share the proceeds on a mutually
agreed-upon percentage of 60% to me and 40% to your kind self.

All
the legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin
would be provided by me. The most important thing I would need is your
honest cooperation in this proposition.This would be done under a
legitimate arrangement that would protect you from any breach of the
law.

If this business proposition offends your moral and ethic
values, do accept my sincere apology. Please contact me at once if you
are interested by replying the mail and ignore it if you are not.

Best regards,

Muhammad Jeffery Charles Esq.

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