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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:
  • "million dollars" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024072549 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • macloed99williams@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "macloed williams" <macloed99williams@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 04:54:56 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT


FROM ; MR MACLOED WILLIAMS.
NO; 12 MAYFLOWER ESTATE, ESSEX NORTH
WC 2H, LONDON- UK.
EMAIL; macloed99williams@yahoo.com.hk
TEL. + 44 7024072549

HELLO,

I am contacting you today for a profitable business prosposal. My name
is MACLOED WILLIAMS . I am a personal secretary to late MR ANDREAS
SCHNEIDER.
ANDREAS SCHNEIDER was an estate and property magnate from Germany but
resident in United Kingdom.
ANDREAS SCHNEIDER died in a plane crash with the whole of his family in a
world tour cruise.



Apart from being his personal secretary I was also his
confidant . I was therefore in a position to know all his Financial
transactions as he trusted me . LATE MR ANDREAS SCHNEIDER had a deposit of
US$18.5 million dollars
with a famous finance institution here which i want you to
help me receive as his next of kin.

IF you agree to assist me ,I will give you all the details on how to contact
them
and the process of receiving the funds because you will act as
the next of kin to LATE MR ANDREAS SCHNEIDER. For assisting me in this
business you will
take 40% of THE USD$18.5 MILLION as your share and I will take 60% as
my share.

I want you to understand that I am not a dishonest man. I am only doing
this because Mr. SCHNEIDER and all his relations are dead ,they will turn
over the money to their treasury and benefits and this will not help me.
Please note that there is no risk in this transaction as no relation of Mr.
ANDREAS is alive today and the bank firm does not know he is dead yet. When
you transfer the money the bank firm
will assume it is Mr. ANDREAS' next of kin who is doing the transfer
because I will help you with his letters of administration to empower you
as his next of kin.
It was when I learnt of his death that I went to his private office to
search for
the paper works [Documents] relating to the said deposit and I found them
in concealed [secret] drawer in his office.

Please reply this message soonest if you are interested as above or call me
on the above phone number for detailed discussions.

Yours sincerely,

MACLOED WILLIAMS.

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