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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +2348051794150 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barrister Haruna Musa" <barister_haruna_musa@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barrister_haruna_musa@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:57:23 +0000
Subject: DEAR FRIEND

BARRISTER HARUNA MUSA
Financial Consultant,Solicitors/Advocate$Notary Public
NO 52 ZIKS AVENUE, MARYLAND-LAGOS
LAGOS STATE.
TEL: 234-8051794150




Attn: Sir/Madam,

I must apologize for this unconsolidated mail, I know this is not a better
way to start relations but as we go on you will understand me better. I am
Barrister Haruna Musa , a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Late Mr.
Abbas Morgan, a national of your country, who formally was a staff to
Nigeria leading Oil Producing Company ". Here-in after shall be referred to
as my client. On the 31 July, 2000, my client, his wife and their only
daughter were involved in plane Crash: AF4590 German Concorde plane that
crashed in France. Check the
site:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy here to locate any
of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After
these several unsuccessful attempts, to locate any member of his family
hence I contacted you.

I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at
US$13,624.000.00 (THIRTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND
UNITED STATES DOLLARS) Left behind by my client before it gets Confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the Security Company where this
US$13,624.000.00 was deposited. The said Security Company has issued me a
notice to provide a legal next of kin or have the account confiscated within
the next couple of some working days. As deduce to five years now, I seek
the consent to present you as the legal "Next of kin" to the deceased based
on the constitutional provisions which empower the deceased attorney to
nominate the next kin where records show that there is non available .

Note that I have all the necessary legal documents that shall be used to
back up our claim legally.You will receive 45% of the total sum as
compensation, base on your good intention to help me secure the fund in your
account. I would also like to use 5% of the fund to raise a reputable
charity home or Foundation in the name of the deceased

All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of Kin,will
be provided.All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us
see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
classified legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of
the law.

For immediate commencement of action, you are required to send across your
Personal information like:
1.Your full name and contact address
2.Your private phone and fax number
3.Your age, Martial status and profession

Upon the acknowledgment of the above, will proof your seriousness and
sincerity to do the business which is of mutual benefit to both. Based on
your notion towards this, kindly contact me immediately for further action
and commencement on this issue. And if this business proposition offends
your moral values,do accept my apology but if not, then contact me at once
to indicate your interest, By giving me the above mentioned datas of yours.

Best regards,

Barr. Haruna Musa
THE PRINCIPAL ATTORNEY
NAKAM LAND CHAMBERS

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