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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (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 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.
  • jones5@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "www lll" <attorneyjones@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:16:43 +0000
Subject: Good day.

BARRISTER JONES SMITHS
JONES Chambers
38 BAdmus Thomas
Victoria Island Lagos-Nigeria.
Email:jones5@myway.com
Phone:+ 806 091 6794.
Greetings,

This Email information is not meant to be some sort of embarrassment to you
but only for the sole purpose of working together in partnership for the
successful transfer of this Inheritance.

I am BARRISTER JONES SMITHS, of JONES CHAMBERS. This mail is written and
intended to solicit your assistance to be presented as NEXT OF KIN to my
Late Client.My Deceased Client Charles Taylor B. (401 Amsterdam Avenue New
York) made a fixed Deposit of Fund valued at USD 9.5M (Nine Million and Five
hundred Thounsand United States Dollars Only) with a Security Finance Firm
here in Nigeria and unfortunately lost his life as victim of the Ikeja Bomb
blast of February 2003 in Lagos Nigeria
View:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm) and left no clear
beneficiary or Next of Kin except some vital documents related to the
Deposit still with me.

The Governing Body of the Security Firm has contacted me on this matter and
I am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay claims to the Fund. Under a clear
and legitimate agreement with you, I shall seek your consent to be presented
as the next of Kin so that my late Clients' Fund will not be Confisticated
by the Finance Firm.For the sake of Transparency on this matter, you are
free to make immediate contact with me through Emailor phone number above:
jones5@myway.com for further information related to this matter.
Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while I expect your
prompt response.
Yours' Faithfully,
Barr. Jones Smiths (Esq.)

NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY:

This email and the information in it are intended for the recipient whose
email appeared above. If you are not the intended recipient please notify me
immediately: you should treat the information in this email as being in
confidence unless otherwise notified by me. You should not copy it or use it
for any purpose nor disclose its contents to any persons.


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