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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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.
• 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.
  • barr_emma_okafor@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "emmanuel okafor" <emmanuelokafor19@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: emma_okafor005@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:12:14 +0100
Subject: ATTN:WOUTERS

FROM:EMMANUEL & ASSOCIATES.
(BARRISTER EMMANUEL OKAFOR )
SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATE
#16 CANAL STREET IKOYI
(LAGOS NIGERIA.)

ATTN:WOUTERS,

BEFORE I PROCEED, I MUST FIRST APOLOGIZE FOR THIS UNSOLICITED MAIL TO YOUI
AM AWARE THAT THIS IS CERTAINLY AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH TO STARTING A
RELATIONSHIP, BUT AS TIME GOES ON YOU WILL REALIZE THE NEED FOR MY ACTION.
MY NAME IS BAR.EMMANUEL OKAFOR , A SOLICITOR AND THE PERSONAL ATTORNEY TO
MR.ROLAND WOUTERS,A FORIEGHNER,WHO WORKED WITH AN OIL COMPANY IN
NIGERIA.HERE IN AFTER REFERRED TO AS MY CLIENT. ON THE 21ST OF APRIL 2003,
MY CLIENT,HIS WIFE AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN WERE INVOLVED IN A GHOSTLY MOTOR
ACCIDENT ALONG SAGAMU EXPRESS ROAD. MY CLIENT AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY
UNFORTUNATELY LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE ACCIDENT.

SINCE THEN I HAVE MADE SEVERAL ENQUIRIES TO YOUR EMBASSY TO LOCATE ANY OF MY
CLIENT'S EXTENDED RELATIVES, WHICH HAS PROVED ABORTIVE AFTER THESE SEVERAL
UNSUCESSFUL ATTEMPTS, THE NEED TO CONTACT YOU.MY MAIN REASON FOR CONTACTING
YOU IS TO ASSIST ME INREPATRIATING THE MONEY AND PROPERTY LEFT BEHIND BY MY
CLIENT BEFORE THEY ARE CONFISCATED OR DECLARED UNSERVICEABLE BY THE BANK
WHERE THEY ARE DEPOSITED/LODGED. PARTICULARLY,THE FIRST BRITISH BANK OF
(NIG) . WHERE THE DECEASED HAS A FIXED SUM OF EIGHTEEN MILLION UNITED STATES
DOLLARS.THE SAID BANK HAS ISSUED ME A FINAL NOTICE TO PROVIDE THE NEXT OF
KIN OF MY LATE CLIENT OR THEY WILL BE LEFT WITH NO OTHER CHOICE THAN TO
CONFISCATE HIS FUNDS,A COPY OF THE SAID NOTICE WHICH I WILL FAX TO YOU ON
GETTING YOUR REPLY.

SINCE I HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN LOCATING MY CLIENT'S RELATIVES FOR THE
PAST THREE YEARS, NOW I SEEK YOUR CONSENT TO PRESENT YOU AS THE NEXT OF KIN
TO MY LATE CLIENT GOING BY THE FACT THAT YOU ARE FORIEGHNER OF THE
NATIONALITY , SO THAT THE SAID FUNDS AS STATED ABOVE I.E, THE SUM OF
EIGHTEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS CAN BE PAID INTO YOUR ACCOUNT INSTEAD
OF LEAVING IT FOR FIRST BRITISH BANK OF (NIG) .

WE CAN TAKE PART OF IT AND LEAVE THE REST TO CHARITY. I HAVE ALL NECESSARY
LEGAL DOCUMENTS THAT CAN BE USED TO BACK UP ANY CLAIM WE MAY MAKE ALL I
REQUIRE IS YOUR HONEST CO-OPERATION TO ENABLE US SEE THIS ARRANGMENT
THROUGH, I GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL BE EXECUTED UNDER A LEGITIMATE
ARRANGEMENT THAT WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ANY BREACH OF THE LAW. PLEASE GIVE ME
YOUR CONFIDENTAIL PHONE/FAX NUMBERS SO THAT I CAN FAX TO YOU ALL THE
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE BANK AND ME..REPLY IN MY ALTERNATIVE
EMAIL;barr_emma_okafor@yahoo.com.



BEST REGARDS

BARRISTER EMMANUEL OKAFOR [ESQ]

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