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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 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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "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 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.
  • charleschambers06@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • charleschambers@k.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?charles=20williams?= <charleschambers06@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: charleschamber@k.ro
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:14:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: PLEASE REVERT


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: charleschambers06@yahoo.co.uk

Greetings to you,


I am Barrister Charles William, I am the PersonalAttorney to Morris


Thompson a National of America, who used to work with Doyon Ltd and


also a partner to

Agip Energy & Natural Resources here in Nigeria.On the 31st of


January 2000, my client, his wife Mrs. Thelma Thompson) and their


Daughter (Miss.Sheryl Thompson) were involved in a plane crash(Alaska


Airlines Flight 261), which crashed into the

Pacific Ocean, go through the websites for moreinformation.


http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/)

and

http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html).


Unfortunately they All lost their lives in the event of the crash,


Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any


of my clients extended

relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several


attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate


any member of

his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you. I contacted you to


assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client


before they get

confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge


deposit were lodged here in Nigeria Particularly.


The Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about $16.5


million U.S Dollars (Sixteen million, five hundred thousand dollars).


Consequently, The bank

issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account


confiscated within the next ten official working days.



Since I have been unsuccessfully in locating the relatives for over 4


years now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of


the deceased since

you are a foreigner so that the proceeds of this account valued at


$16.5 million U.S dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can


share the money, 55% to me and 40% to you, while 5% should be for


expenses or tax as your government may require.


I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any


claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable


us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed


under a legitimate arrangement that will

protect you from any breach of the law.



Please get in touch with me by my email to enable us discuss further,


Am in Nigeria presently and can be reached through my phone numbers.


Please note that this business is confidential and risk free, we must


keep it secret till the funds gets to your account.


My Contact email is:charleschambers@k.ro



Yours Faithfully,

Barrister Charles William.

- charles williams

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