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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:
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: Wilfred Sazilli <sazilli.wilfred@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: wilfredsazilli@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 01:13:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Urgent Attention:


Atten:

Please pardon me for contacting you through this medium, my name is Barrister Wilfred Sazilli, I am a legal practitioner with Wilfred Law Firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I saw your contact and profile, and I decided that you could Co-operate with me in this proposition.

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 was left in my deceased client's safe deposit. This deposit is to be declared UN-serviceable by the security And financial firm as there have been no indicated next of kin or next of Beneficiary of the deposit. The total amount of cash deposited by my deceased client is 6.7 Million (Six Million, Seven Hundred Thousand) United State Dollars only. He confided this in me when he was alive.

The security and finance firm has issued to me a notification to Contact the next of kin of my deceased client to either make claim as Beneficiary of the safe deposit, or to re-activate the period of deposit with a monthly surcharge of 6% to be deducted as an Escrow safe keeping Fee of the deposit.
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 safe deposit would be paid to you as his next of kin or the legitimate beneficiary.

When we have the fund by our self, I propose a sharing 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 need is your honest co-operation to 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.
Best regards,

Wilfred Sazilli(Esq.)



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