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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "million 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)
  • "chambers" (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.
  • +448715038647 (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.
  • mrjimmystuart@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barrister Jimmy" <barrister.jimmy1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:52 -0700
Subject: FROM JIMMY STUART CHAMBERS ESQ (LONDON)


* FROM THE DESK OF JIMMY STUART
Attorney Jimmy Stuart (Esq)
GALLOWAY CHAMBERS
#240 New CASTRO STREET,
LONDON, SW1
Office: +448715038647
+448715038646
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Email: Mrjimmystuart@yahoo.co.uk<http://us.mc326.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Mrjimmystuart@yahoo.co.uk>



Dear Sir/Madam

I apologize using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of
this magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access
reposed on this medium. I am the personal attorney to Late Mr. Andreas
Schranner, a German private Businessman who was into Property Sales
and Management who died in a plane crash (AF4590) in 2000, along with
his wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich and his husband Christian with
their children Katharina and maximillian.

See Web-Site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm for the
confirmation of my story.

Since then, I have made several enquiries here in LONDON to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, but this has proved abortive untill i
personally went to your country"s embassy here in London to search their
data base and luckily i came across your email contact and that was when i
decided to contact you regarding this transaction.

My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriation of the Funds left
behind by my late client prior to his death before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the Security Company where his deposits were
lodged in Madrid, Spain. The Security Company had issued me a notice to
provide the next of kin or have the Valuables Confiscated and handed over
to the Spanish Government.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating his extended relatives for over 7
years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the
deceased so that the Valuables valued at $USD$7.5 Million Dollars (Seven
Million Five Hundred Dollars Thousand United States Dollars) can be released
to you and then we can share the funds for your help.

I am willing to give you 35% of the funds.

I have all the necessary official and legal documents that can be used to
back up the claim. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us
in seeing this transaction through, and a guarantee that you will not sit or
divert my share of the valuables when it is released to you by the Security
Firm in Madrid Spain

I am constrained to take this action as a legal pratictioner, or else
corrupt bank officials would seize the Valuables, or the Spanish Government
would impound it into the already bloated National treasury where it would
be looted by corrupt politicians, or used to fund unnecessary wars that
will escalate and end up terminating innocent lives.

PLEASE REPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING:

1. FULL NAME:
2. DATE OF BIRTH:
3. CURRENT ADDRESS/COUNTRY:
4. OCCUPATION/RANK:
5. PHONE /MOBILE/FAX NUMBERS:

If you are interested, contact me via my private email box, Or call me on my
office line so that we can discuss much better about this project that
involves a huge sum of money.

Reason of the requirements is to make sure that you are capable to handle
this transaction and also to enable me file an application with the Security
Company for the IMMEDIATE RELEASE of my late clients VAULT to you as his
next of kin.

Best Regards,

Jimmy Stuart (ESQ)
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