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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:
  • "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 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.
  • barristerpb63@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • barristerphilbroadben63@yahoo.com.ar (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • barristerphilbroadben63@yahoo.com.ar (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Phillips Broadbent <barristerpb63@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: barristerphilbroadben63@yahoo.com.ar
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:11:42 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION.


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: barristerpb63@yahoo.com

ATTN:


I am the financial lawyer to the late Mr. Steve Bond and he was an oil merchant with investment in the leading oil in Africa. He invested in lifting oil from Niger delta in Nigeria to other countries where he sales it. He was the highest shareholder in Shell petroleum Bp in 1994. Mr. Steve Bond met his untimely death via plane crash in the 2002. I was contacted as his lawyer by the Board of Directors of Shell Bp to look for the relative of late Mr. Steve Bond to enable them transfer the accumulated share dividend of his investment with the Diamond Bank of Nigeria Limited. It is about two years now.


I made some research about the relatives of Mr. Steve Bond and discovered through some DNA reports that some other two passengers in the same plane happened to be his wife and only daughter Mr. Steve Bond who also died along with him in the crash.


I am contacting you so that both of us can reach an agreement to enable you act as his next of kin and claim the fund. Of course they will believe me because I am his financial lawyer until his death and I have all his business documents with me. I would have use someone from here for the purpose but the fact that late Mr. Steve Bond is a white man made it impossible for me to present a black man as his next of kin which of course, the bank will not honor.


The entire document will be validated in your name and shall be drafted by me to include your name in an application which be forwarded to the bank for the claims. The money is just $31.5Million dollars. I will personally monitor the progress of the transaction as your lawyer. After we succeed in transferring the money into your account, we will give some portion of the money to charity home in your country and then share the remaining in the ratio 70% to 30% between you and I. If you are willing to work with me in this regard, please, forward to me through this email address: barristerphilbroadben63@yahoo.com.ar



1) Your full name, age, occupation and contact address


2) Your phone number and fax number (cell phone)



Thanks and God bless you.



Regards,



Barrister Phillips Broadbent. (SAN).

barristerphilbroadben63@yahoo.com.ar




















- Phillips Broadbent

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