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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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Alfred Miller <A-Miller4@neiu.edu>
Reply-To: alex.sctt1@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:27:28 -0700
Subject: URGENT


Dear Friend

PRIVATE AND URGENT


My name is Bar=2E Alex Scott=2E I am a legal practitioner in London=2C U=
nited Kingdom=2E I saw your contact and I decided that you could coopera=
te with me in this proposition=2E
I have a client who died together with his family sameday in a plane cra=
sh (In the Saab 340=2C Crossair flight LX 498 plane crash of 10 January =
2000) I am contacting you because I felt that you could help me in the r=
edeem of the fund that were left in my deceased client=27s bank account=
=2E This fund is closed to be declared UN-serviceable by the bank as the=
re were no indicated next of kin or next of beneficiary of the fund in t=
he bank account=2EThe total amount of cash in the bank account of my dec=
eased client is

=A34=2C633=2C543=2E00 Pounds (Four Million=2C Six Hundred and Thirty-th=
ree Thousand=2C Five Hundred and Forty-three GBP))=2C only=2E The bank h=
ad issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin of my deceased=
client for either to re-activate the bank account or to make claim of=
beneficiary=2C of the fund in the bank account=2C with a
month charge of 6=25 to be deducted as an Escrow safe keeping fee of th=
e bank account=2C so as to avoid the indefinite closure of the bank acco=
unt=2E My proposition to you is to seek your consent to assist me in the=
activation of the deceased account=2C as the next-of-kin and beneficiar=
y of my deceased client in the bank=2E This means that the proceeds of h=
is bank account would be paid to you as his next of kin or the legitimat=
e beneficiary=2E When the fund in his bank account is paid to you first=
you will deduct all expenses made =


before will can go on to share as agreed=2C we would share the money on =
a mutually agreed-upon percentage of 60=25 to me and 40=25 to your kind =
self=2E All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client=27s n=
ext-of-kin would be provided by me=2E The most important thing I would n=
eed is your honest cooperation in this proposition=2E This would be done=
under a legitimate arrangement that would protect you from any breach o=
f the law=2EIf this business proposition offends your moral and ethic va=
lues=2C do
accept my sincere apology=2E Please contact me at once if you=92re
interested=2E
Email=3A alex=2Esctt1=40gmail=2Ecom

Best regards=2C
Mr=2E Alex Scott

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