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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: kane cole <vonl909@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <kanecole12@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:34:48 +0000
Subject: I WRITE TO SEEK YOUR SERVICES




Hello, I got your contact in course of my inquiry to locate any relations of my Deceased Client. John Shumejda who died on the 5th of January 2002 in a plane crash in Birmingham;you can view this CNN website http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane/Please I need your assistance to repatriate a deposit containing the sum of US$18.3M USD which my Deceased Client left behind in a Finance Company in london.The Finance company in possesion of this depost containing this fund has giving me an ultumatum to present the next of kin to my deceased client so that the deposit can be released or have them confiscate it.I am seeking your consent and assistance to nominate you as my Deceased Client's Relation under legal process and risk free arrangements so that the deposit containing the funds will be released to your favour as the beneficiay.I have the jurisdiction as the Deceased's personal aid in london to testify the deceased's relationship with you as the next of kin so that the deposit will be released to your favour.I have all the legal documents to complete the transaction and to present you as the next of kin.Your major role would be to open a bank account where the funds will be transferred in your base,and to also treat the transaction as a personal and confidential matter to yourself.i will give you 40% of the money for your involvement. Sincerely, Kane Cole.


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