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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)
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "mrselizabeth powell" <mrselizabeth81@nonifamily.net>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 15:47:45 +0530 (IST)
Subject: URGENT AFFAIR

Dear friend,

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not
known before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation.
Please consider my condition, and not the fact that you have not known me
before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because
there are many such possibilities these days.

I am Mrs.Elizabeth Powell,a citizen of Great Britain. I am the wife
and widow to Late Mr. Julius Powell (a former British ambassador to
Republic of Benin,West Africa ), who died in 2005.I have recently been
diagnosed of Cancer of the Pelvic and my doctor said," no hope of survivi".
I am writing from my laptop on my sick bed in this Royal
clinic,Wembledon,South London.My husband left in a charity trust
foudation account ,the sum of £25 Million in The halifax bank of
Scotland.And my husband is the only child of his deceased parents.

I need a reliable person urgently to co-operate with.Because of my
deteroriating health condition and my husband's death, I am looking for a
credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin as I and my
husband have no child or children to pass over the right of next of kin.
This person will apply to the bank and request for the transfer of the
fund to his or her bank account. This is on the condition that you will
take 35% of the fund for yourself,5% will be used to settle expenses
incured.While you will use the remaining 60% for the less privilege
people in the society.

This is in fulfillment of the last request of my husband: That a
substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less privilege
and ,also to donate for the relief of tsunami victims.If this condition is
acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names
and contactinformation On the receipt of your interest,I will instruct you
on what to do ,to commece the proccess immediately.

Due to the seriousness of my illness,I cannot predict what will be my
fate . If you are interested to assist me in this charitable service for
sake of humanity.

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