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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "a diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "executive governor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • dicksonjames45@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Dickson James" <dicksonjames01@msn.com>
Reply-To: dicksonjames@uymail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:17:19 +0000
Subject: Urgent reply




From: BARRISTER DICKSON JAMES

It may interest you to know me and the reasons behind this mail. My name is
BARRISTER DICKSON JAMES, the Personal Attorney to the former Governor of
Bayelsa State, Federal Republic of Nigeria.who has been impeached by the
State House of Assembley of Bayelsa State for jumping bail in UK.

MR. DIEPREYE ALAMIEYESEIGHA, was the former Executive Governor of Bayelsa
State, Federal Republic of Nigeria, who is currently been held in the United
Kingdom (UK) over money laundering. He has been already charged to court in
UK. We are faced with difficulties both of home and abroad because of this
issue at stake. His accounts are frozen and assets sized amongst others.

We appeal for your kind assistance for safe keeping of this undiscovered
amount of money which is $18.5millon which is now deposited in a Security
Company in Europe through the assistant of a Diplomat friend of the Governor
who do not want his name mention for security reasons, that is now with a
Security Company there.

Your kind assistance is urgently needed in securing this fund.

Attached herein is the Publication of the matter/ case.


BARRISTER DICKSON JAMES

Personal Attorney to the former Governor

dicksonjames45@yahoo.co.uk

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