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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:
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: Barrister Nelson Manga <barr_nelsontg002@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: nel_mtg@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:46:10 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Get Back For More Details Please.....

Dear,

I am Barrister Nelson Manga Personal attorney to late Mr.Thomson C. Frazier,a foregn national and a construction engineer here in Lome-Togo.I have the pleasure to contact you on this subject matter.

My late client died along with his entire family while on holiday in Asia Earth Quake Disaster(Phuket Island in Thailand on December 2004. (TSUNAMI DISASTER)

He left the sum of USD$9 Million with a bank here and ever since his death,the bank has asked me to provide his next of kin.

I have the pleasure to contact you based on the fact that you a foreigner like him, so that you will stand as his bonafide next of kin and claim this money which he left behind. We are not allowed to operate foreign currency accounts here.

On hearing from you,I shall give you a compehensive informations of what to do as regards to this.

Barrister Nelson Manga
Nelson Manga & Associates
36 Rue de Paris,
Lome Togo.
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