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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:
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "barr." (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.
  • +447031818824 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448709745521 (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.
  • bwilldesk@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "WILLIAM BARNELSY" <willydesk@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:26:18 +0100
Subject: CONTACT ME BACK IMMEDIATELY


MANAGING PARTNER
W.G. BARNESLY & SOLICITORS
415 ROYAL LIVER BUILDING,
PIER HEAD, LIVERPOOL L3 1LL, ENGLAND.



Hello



Re: NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST



On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. Reinhard
Hermann, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter to you returned
undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address
on the WILL.



I wish to notify you that Late Engr. Reinhard Hermann made you a beneficiary
to his WILL. He left the sum of seventeen million five hundred thousand
United States Dollars ($17,500.000.00 USD)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 travelled man, he must have been in
contact with you in the past or simply you were recommended to him by one of
his numerous friends abroad who wished you good.



Engr. Reinhard Hermann until his death was a member of the Helicopter
Society and the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers. He had a
very good heart and was a philanthropist. His great philanthropy earned him
numerous awards during his life time.
Late Engr. Reinhard Hermann died on the 13th day of December, 2007. At the
age of 80 years, and his WILL is now ready for execution. According to him
this money is to support your humanitarian activities and to help the poor
and the needy in your society.



Please if I reach you this time as I am hoping, 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 through the e mail address, telephone or fax numbers below.



Email: bwilldesk@gmail.com



Sincerely yours,


BARR. WILLIAM BARNESLY (ESQ).
W.G. BARNESLY & SOLICITORS
MANAGING PARTNERS/SOLICITORS
Office Line: +44 703 181 8824 (Office hours Only)
Office Fax: +44 151 213 0439 & +44 870 974 5521
(7am to 7pm Mondays till Saturdays)

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