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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:
  • "you are advise to" (this email uses bad English)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +447045722161 (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.
  • barr.dempsey.william@googlemail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr. Dempsey Robert William." <barr.dempsey.william@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:34:37 -0400
Subject: My Third And Final Email To You.




DEMPSEY ROBERT WILLIAM & ASSOCIATES
Address: 33 Bedford Row
London WC1R 4JH,
England.
Phone: +44 704 572 2161
Fax: +44 709 286 8479
E-mail: barr.dempsey.william@googlemail.com

Partner Attorney at Law
Allen & Overy LLP, UK

Attention:Beneficiary,

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late
Engr. Jürge Krügger. I once again try to notify you as my earlier
letter was returned undelivered. I wish to notify you
that late Engr. Jürge Krügger made you a beneficiary to his WILL.
He left the sum of Thirty Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars
(USD$30,100.000.00) to you in the Codicil and last testament to his
WILL.
This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and
true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact
with you in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one
of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good. Engr. Jürge
Krügger until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society
and the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers.

According to him this money is to support your humanitarian
activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society.
Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to
me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to
hear from you in no distant time.

Note: You are advise to contact me with my personal email
address: barr.dempsey.william@googlemail.com

I await your prompt response.
Yours in Service,

Barr. Dempsey Robert William.
Partner Attorney at Law
Allen & Overy LLP, UK
Phone: +44 704 572 2161

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