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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (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.
  • +447040109318 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +447030400978 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "David Johnson" <david_j1920@msn.com>
Reply-To: david_j1920@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:02:04 +0000
Subject: i need your urgent reply...

David Johnson & Associates
London-England
TEl: +4470401093184/ FAX: 44-70304009788
Email: david_j1920@msn.com
Our ref: SS/YOO/GT/06
Your Ref:
Date: 25th JAN, 06


Dear Friend,

I am sorry for contacting you through this medium without a previous
notice,I had to use the E-mail because it is an easier and more confidential
way of making contact with people around the world. My name is Barrister
David Johnson,a Forty Five (45) year old Attorney in practice here in
London-England. I had a client, a contractor based in sri-lanka/indonesia
now deceased. My client lost his life alongside his wife and only child in
aceh sri-lanka in a car crash on 13th February 2002. Please I need your
assistance To repatriate the sum of USD 14.5M which my Deceased Client left
behind in a Finance Company. The Account containing this fund has been
dormant since his demise and the Finance Company is threatening to
confiscate the fund as "Unclaimed Deposit". Rather leaving the fund
confiscated; based on you share the same last name with my Deceased Client I
seek your consent and assistance to nominate you as my Deceased Client's
Relation under legal process and risk free to repatriate the fund as I have
the Jurisdiction as the Deceased's attorney to testify the Deceased's
Relation. Also I have The documents to complete the transaction. What I
require is your willingness to assist me And to treat the transaction as
confidential.

Contact me for further information and commencement of the transaction.

Regards
David Johnson


Principal Partner: PETER BOYD Esq. Legal Practitioners: MRS. M. T. GOODYEAR,
CHRIS UBA, ANGELA OSHEA Esq., T. MABOHO Esq., IAN CHESNEY Esq.

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam