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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:

• 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.
  • garyspears39@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: twyne27@comcast.net (Tracy Wayne)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 01:44:03 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST

MANAGING PARTNER
GARY SPEARS & ASSOCIATES
LONDON - UK.

NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the
estate of Late Engr. Hahn Wagner; I once again
try to notify you as my earlier letter returned
undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again
by this same email address on the WILL. I wish to
notify you that late Engr. Hahn Wagner; made you
a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of
($11,100.000.00) to you in the codicil and last
testament to his WILL.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you,
but it is real and true. Being a widely traveled
man, he must have been in contact with you in the
past or simply you were recommended to him by one
of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good.
Engr. Hahn Wagner; until his death was a member of
the Helicopter Society and the Institute of
Electronic & Electrical Engineers. He had a very
good heart and loved to give out.

Late Engr. Hahn Wagner died on the 12th day of March,
2007 at the age of 80 years, and his WILL is now ready
for execution. According to him this money is to support
your humanitarian activities and to help the poor and
the needy in our society. If I reach you this time as
I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as
possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear
from you in no distant time through the email address
below.

Email: garyspears39@yahoo.co.uk

Yours in Service,
Tracy Wayne
(Secretary)
Gary Spears QC.

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