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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.

Fraud email example:

From: "Campbell Douglas" <campbell.douglas5@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: barristerdouglasc@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:24:23 +0100
Subject: Urgent Response


Hello,

I have emailed you earlier without a response. In my first email I mentioned
about my late client whose relatives I cannot get in touch with. I am
compelled to do this because I would not want the bank to push my clients
funds into the bank treasury as unclaimed inheritance.

This mail is written and intended to solicit your assistance to be presented
as NEXT OF KIN to my Late Client since you are a foreigner and only a
foreigner can lay claims on this inheritance.
The Governing Body of the Bank has contacted me on this matter and I am yet
to provide the Next of Kin to lay claims to the Fund. Under a clear and
legitimate agreement with you, I shall seek your consent to be presented as
the next of Kin so that my late Clients' Fund will not be Confisticated by
the Bank and pushed into the bank treasury as unclaimed bills.

For the sake of Transparency on this matter, you are free to make immediate
contact for further clarification and explanation on this matter. I will
need you also to reconfirm your full name and contact telephone number to
ascertain the fact that I am dealing with the right person.

Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while we expect your
prompt response to this matter as the urgency demands.

Yours faithfully,

Campbell Douglas
Douglas and Jakes Solicitors
United kingdom

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