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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:
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • +447011139694 (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.
  • tjtsno@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MICHAEL MIMS <michaelunhrafcp@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mikemimsmm@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:13:29 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED


From:Attorneybiz& Co.
46-50 Sunny Gardens Rd.
Hendon, London. NW4 1RX
Tel/fax: 44-701 1139694
Email: tjtsno@excite.com


I am Barrister Tjaijo Tresno. I am a German but lives and work here in the UK. This email may come to you as a surprise because we do not know each other.But I am assuring you that it is a good one and it is from my heart after I have made so much verification about your person.

One of my client who died with all members of his family in a Ghastly motor accident here in April 2003 is sharing the same surname with you.Based on this,I have decided to contact you to enable you to assist me in claiming the sum of $14.5M USD.My late client has deposited this amount in a security/finance company in Italy before his untilmely death in 2003 April.

Because I was his personal Attorney,I have all the vital documents to this fund deposited in the Italian Bank.Since his demise,I have tried through many sources if I can get hold of any member of my late client family but to no avail.My late client did not leave any next of kin when making this deposit.My late client was an Engineer / Contractor with Shell Development Company UK.

Let me and you put head together to safeguard this money and use it for our own investment in your country as no one will ever come for it abymore.Also,it is important because at the end of this year financial quater,the finance house in Italy will seize such unclaimed deposits with them as stipulated inthe Deposit agreement they had with my late client which I am a signatory.I have all the documents to present and back you up as my late client associate and next of kin and this is going to be carried in a most legal manner.

This is going to be based on absolute trust and high confidentiality must be maintained.

Therefore,I would like you to call me on my direct tel number above or send your acceptance reply to the email address above to enable me shed more light on this subject matter and to tell you what procedures to take to actualise this fruitful transaction.

I await your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,

Barrister Tjaijo Tresno ESQ {LLB}

PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO THIS EMAIL: (tjtsno@excite.com)



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