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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "barrister" (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.
  • +447040104292 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • info_solicitors@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tommy Edwards" <tommyedwards_partners004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: info_solicitors@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:06:12 +0000
Subject: Thanks for your consideration

From : Barrister Tommy Edwards
Address: TOMMY EDWARDS & PARTNERS, Solicitors & Investment
Consultant,Livery House,9 Pratt Street,London NW1 0AE,United Kingdom.
E-mail : info_solicitors@yahoo.co.uk
Tel. : +44-704-010-4292

Dear Sir/Madam,

The inspiration to contact you is simply divine providence, I am making
this proposal because I have to seek the partnership of a resourceful and
sincere
person to assist me realise this project.

I am Tommy Edwards (esq). a solicitor and investment consultant based in
London,United kindom.I was attending a business luncheon in Berlin,Germany
and I got introduced to the renowned german businessman and property
mogul,Mr Andreas Schranner(of the blessed memory).He engaged my services as
attorney and investment consultant and my primary assignment was to
spearhead his investment forays in the united kingdom.Three months later I
invited him to london and under my professional guidance and based on my
advice he made a fixed deposit of 10,000,000,00 million pounds sterling at a
financial institution.This deposit was for 12 months and upon maturity I
made effort to contact my client ,I could not reach him or any member of his
family.I was forced to travel to germany and there I got the tragic news
that on july 25 2000, my client Mr Andreas Schranner,his wife Maria,thier
daughter Eich and husband christian and their two children perished in the
air france concorde newyork bound flight;please click here for details

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I have made efforts to locate any member of his family with strong
biological links to my late client without success.The search to find a
close relation is one that has consumed my time and resources.The insitution
is asking me to either present a next of kin to late Andreas Schranner or
forfiet the depsosit. my proposal is to package , present you as next of kin
to late Andreas Schranner and process the fixed deposit and transfer custody
to you for our mutual benefit.

My capacity as solicitor/investment consultant to my late client gives me
the discretion to package and transfer the deposit to you. It will amount to
injustice and agaist my pfofessional ethics, if i do not take this decisive
step to secure this deposit,and invest it.The late Schranner was also a
friend in addition to our business relationship.I will wait for your
reaction and response and then together we can jumpstart this project and
nurture it to reality.You should contact me via my work Email Address:
info_solicitors@yahoo.co.uk


Your swift response is anticipated.

Regards.

Tommy Edwards (esq).

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