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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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)
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "million us 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)
  • "barrister" (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.
  • williamright080@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lde080 lde <lde080@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: williamright080@myway.com
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:26:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WE CAN BE FRIENDS



Dear Friend,

Firstly, not to cause you embarrassment, I am Barrister WILLIAM
BROWN AGUDA, a Solicitor at law and the personal attorney to named
GERALD WELSH who died in an air crash along with his wife on the
31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline boeing 990 with other
passengers on board.
You can confirm this fact from the web site which was aired by the
BBC WORLD NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

Sincehis death, none of his relations or persons have come forward
to lay claims to his, this funds as next-of-kin, and on my own i
havemade concerted effort to locate any of his relatives but all
prove abortive, which makes me to believe that maybe nobody of his
knows that he was operating this foreign account with an Insurance
broking firm here in LAGOS-NIGERIA. Based on the ethics and
policies oftheDeposit holding firm, this funds will be declared
unclaimed fundsandtaken to the treasury of the bank as capital base
of the bank,because already the account has been tagged dormant
because it has exceeded the normal functional number of years.


Inspite of the above please do bear in mind that l have made several
enquiries with his country's embassies to locate any of my clients
extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful. After these
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you with this
business partnershipproposal. I havecontacted you to assist in
repatriating a huge amount of money left behind by my client before
they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
Finance/Security Company where these huge
deposit was lodged.

The deceased had a deposit valued presently at $30.5million (Thirty
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dolars) and the Company
has issued me a notice to provide hisnext ofkin or Beneficiary by
WILL otherwise have the account confiscated within the next sixty
official working days.

Since Ihave been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over
3 years now, Iseek your consent to present you as the next of kin /
Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this
account valued at $30.5Million US dollars can be paid to you. This
will be disbursedor shared in these percentages, 60% to me and 40%
to you.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any
claim we may make. All I require is your honest Co-operation,
Confidentiality and Trust to enable us see this transaction
through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law.

And please provide methe following:
This is to enable me commence immediate preparation of all legal
document that will back up our claim.

1. Full Name :
2.YourTelephone Number and Fax Number
3. Your Contact Address.

Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.

Best regards,

Williams B. Aguda :Esq
WILLY-BROWN &ASSOCIATES

NB:reply to my private mailbox : williamright080@myway.com







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