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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:
  • "huge deposit" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "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: "kalmali musa" <kalmalimusaidris_6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kalmalimusaidris@walla.com
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:47:24 +0000
Subject: KALMALI MUSA AND ASSOCIATES.

KALMALI MUSA AND ASSOCIATES.

May I crave your indulgence to a business partnership that you will find
interesting on careful observation, I feel quite safe dealing with you in
this business proposition because having carefully observed the advantages
we have if we work together, first and fore most, my name is Barrister
Kalmali Musa Idris an officer of the court and the Personal Attorney to Mr.
Larry Baldridge Jr, who was a formal contractor with Nigerian National
Petroleum cooperation (NNPC) until his death on the 31st January 2000 on
board the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed, I have made several
enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives
this has proved unsuccessful.

For more details on the crash please refer to the below site:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name
over the Internet to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence
I contacted you, because I am confronted with a situation that I alone can
not handle but with the help of a second party, we can see reason to it.

I contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money and property left
behind by my late client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposit were lodged and some other
estate values, Particularly the Bank where my late client had an account
valued at about $9.5 million dollars.

Consequently, the bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have
the account confiscated within the next fourteen official working days,
since no one has come fort to stand as the owner of the account or the
beneficiary/next of kin to my late client since his death and I have been
unsuccessfully in locating any relatives nor thigh of my late clients for
over 5 years since the incident occurred, now I seek your consent to present
you as the next of kin to the my deceased client since you are from the same
country so that the proceeds of this account valued at $9.5 million dollars
can be paid to you as the beneficiary claimant/ next of kin and once fund is
confirmed in your account I will travel to your country so that you and I
can share the money 50% to me and 40% to you, while 10% should be for
expenses or tax as your government may require.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim
we are going to make.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law as I
will not like to get into trouble with the authority, if you are willing to
do this project with me please send the following information for more
details and quick communications:

1) Your full name.
2) Telephone and fax

Please on your acceptance to go through this project with me, get in touch
with me with the above information through my private mailbox:
kalmalimusaidris@walla.com for further information.


Best regards,
KALMALI MUSA (SAN)
Email: kalmalimusaidris@walla.com

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