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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "joshua chima" <barrijoshua02@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:16:02 +0100
Subject: Request to use you as his next of kin

Dear Sir/Madam,


I am Joshua Chima a solicitor at law. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr.Mark
Martineau, who lived in Nigeria for some 8 years, and who was until his
demise my client based on engagement entered into with my chambers in 1998.
Late Mark who is hereafter referred to as my client passed on April 2002, in
a fatal car accident.

All occupants of the vehicle including his immediate family unfortunately
lost their lives. I contact you to secure your assistance in claiming his
estate which includes sums of money left behind by him (Mark) to forestall
confiscation and possible declaration of his account as non-serviceable by
the bank in which this money were deposited.Standard Trust Bank where my
late client had an account for a value of 8.3 million dollars has issued me
with notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the funds confiscated and
declared abandoned.

I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased so
that the lodgments of this account valued at 8.3 million dollars can be
transferred to you by legitimate inheritance provisions as my client's Next
of Kin. This sum of money can thereafter be mutually disbursed by an agreed
percentage All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of
Kin, will be available by my chambers as witness to your status as bonafide
inheritor.

I therefore solicit your honest cooperation to enable us see this enterprise
to finality. I reassure you that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

I will like you to furnish me with the following information.
Your full name
Mailing address
Phone / fax number
Age
Sex
Occupation

Please get in touch with me, to enable us discuss more
elaborately

Best regards,


Joshua Chima.

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