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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:
  • "@lawyer.com" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +34627265331 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • manueljvelsquezess@lawyer.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "manueljvelsquezss Gazeta.pl" <manueljvelsquezss@gazeta.pl>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:19:38 +0200
Subject: IMPORTANT INFOR


Sir
My name is Jose Manuel Velasquez, i am the solicitor/ lawyer to one yang
lim kim he was a contractor to an oil drilling company REPSOL here in
Madrid España, eventually he was among the victims that died in 2004 atocha
Madrid bombing.
Since his death, his bankers la-Caixa bank Madrid have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim the money he has with them worth about
10.5million euros meant for the contract he executed.

After this years past, his next of could not be traced , I now decided to
look for any body that can claim or stand as the next of kin of my late
clients so that such person can come forward as the next of kin Since we
cannot have any trace of his next of kin and as I found you I decided to
inform you so that you can stand as the next of kin to enable the bank send
this money to you.

I will send you all relevant documents which you will further send to the
bank during the course of transferring money to you , after which i will
come over to your country ,so that we can sit down together and invest
money in any good and viable business there Instead of leaving this money
to lie unclaimed with the bank.

Thank you so much for your understanding, you are free to ask me any
question as you so wish

Yours Faithfully

Jose Manuel Velásquez esq
Tel: +34 627 265 331
Tel: +34 916 073 572
EMAIL: manueljvelsquezess@lawyer.com

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