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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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.
  • misslizywilliams@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Miss Lizy Williams" <misslizy@lake-link.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:17:32 -1200
Subject: GOD BLESS YOU.


Hello,

Greeting to you in the name of the lord. My name is Miss Lizy William , I am 23 years old, I am from Manchester London , My younger brother age 20 years old, where the only children of Late MR.BOB WILLIAMS.

Our parents died in a plane crash(Alaska Airline Flight 261), Website below for your verification.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

My father's relative after the death of my father sold all my father's House in USA/Washington and other valuable properties and that was still not enough for them.His personal assistant managing his 2 gas station sold the 2 gas station to UK government and ran away. We are now left with nothing and,I want to go back to my studies because I only attended my first year in university before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.

please, l would like you to know that l have discovered from my father's bank manager that my father deposited Two Trunks Boxes containing some huge amount of money in there custody and, Tag it valuable Items for security reasons .He registered my name as his next of kin but the problem is that my late father's Elder brother knows about this deposit because my father never hide anything for him.

My Late father's elder brother wants me and my younger brother to suffer for know reason .The bank manager told me that the only way I can get this money and live in peace with my younger brother is to look for a relaible person to claim this money on my behalf as my relative so,I need your assistance to help claim this money on my behalf.

The amount in question is $6 Million (Us dollars) and the bank manager made me to understand that that before i can get this money from the bank to transfer to anybody that i will have to buy a change of ownership certificate which cost $2,500 dollars and i don't have such amount with me.

So l will like you to assist me transfer this money to your account and from it you will take the sum of 30% then you will send the remaining 70% of the money to the account information I we later send to you.
I am giving you this offer because i don't have any other option left.

Regards
Miss Lizy Williams.
PLEASE REPLY TO:misslizywilliams@gmail.com

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