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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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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.
  • +447031897973 (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.
  • hardee_brown010@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:17:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLS GET BACK TO ME


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: hardee_brown010@yahoo.com



- Dear Friend I am sure that the receipt of this mail will be of utmost blessing to you and l .However sorry to marvel you a bit and take some of your time in going through this unpredicted letter of entreaty for your for bearing and facilitation. I wish to inform you I was the intimate and entrusted Attorney of late Mr. Afzi kumar, whose life and that of his entire family was cut short in a ghastly motor accident 2006 on their way back from vacation from a country side in Liverpool in the United Kingdom on the 26th of December 2006 My late client was a Director for a maintenance culture of the CHEVRON out reach in London I have made several probes here to uncover any of my clients extended/distant relatives, which resulted abortive. After these ineffectual exertions, I decided to search through, with his genealogical names in other to locate any member of his lineage therefore reason why I channeled this inquest to you. I have contacted you to facilitate in the fund tr!
ansmittal of total valued at 4.5 million (four million five hundred thousand British Pounds) that was entrusted in a bank by my late client, before it gets expropriate or declared nonfunctional by the bankers here in the United Kingdom where this huge amount wer e retained . The said bank has authorized me with official observations to provide the next of kin or have his account expropriated within the next fifteen official working days. Because I have been unable to make this relationship linkage contact, I wish to seek your carte blanche to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the ditto pedigree`s names, so that this fund can be paid to you. So, on receipt of your positive reaction, we will then determine the sharing quota and modus vivendi of the transfer. I have all the necessary credentials/information and legal documents required to legally equipped your claim. My demand from you is your sincere willingness and motivated spirited !
efforts to enhance the ascendancy of this covenant. I hereby give you
warranty that this covenant will be consummated with all total repute to all statutory pecking order that will protect you from any fissure of all existing charter. Contact me back for further instructions on how to proceed to claim these funds, providing me your private telephone numbers for easy communication. Call me for further clarification on this claims Tel: +447031897973 Yours truly, Barrister Hardee brown Adlex solicitor`s chambers 36C Belsize Lane, 36C Belsize Lane,

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