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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +22997344117 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • djakochambers@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "b.djako_esq Gazeta.pl" <b.djako_esq@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:43:15 +0100
Subject: Enquirie from Barrister Kloussah Bernard Djako


*From Djako Chambers Association Cotonou
c/1759 Danji rue de Porto Norvo*
*06 bp 3361 Cotonou *
*Benin Republic*
*Email; djakochambers@gmail.com<http://us.mc464.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=djakochambers@gmail.com>
*

*Dear friend,

I know we have not meet in person, I got your contact in course of my
inquiery to locate Relations of my deceased client who died with his family
in a plane crash on Monday 31 July 2000. *
**
*Please I need your assistance to repatriate the sum of U S $4.5M which my
deceased client left behind.

The account containing this fund has been dormant since his demise and the
financial institute is now threatening to confiscate the fund as unclaimed
deposit, rather leaving the fund confiscated based on the fact that you
share the same last name with my deceased client I seek your consent and
assistance to nominate you as my deceased Client Relation under legal
process and risk free to repatriate the fund as I have the jurisdiction as
the deceased P.A to testify the deceased relation.

You can confirm the plane crash on this web link.
**http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi
/world/europe/859479.stm*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
*
Also I have the legal documents to prove the death of the client .*
*What I require is your willingness to assist me and to treat the
transaction
as confidential.*
* Contact me for further informations about the transaction.

Yours faithfully,
Barrister Kloussah Bernard Djako .
Contact email:
djakochambers@gmail.com<http://us.mc464.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=djakochambers@gmail.com>
*
*Direct mobil:+229 97 344117*

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