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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 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.
  • dogulasjesq@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dogulas James Esq <dogulasjesq@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: dogulasjesq01@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:53:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent attention needed


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

>From Barrister Dogalas James Esq

Principal Partner Dogalas James &

Associates Chambers

(legal practionner/advocates)

Lome Togo.


Dear Friend ,


As it may be of your keen interest, I am Barister Dogalas James ,a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr Hamed Abdel Wahab Ahmed a contractor with Shell Oil Development Company S.A.R.L in Lome Togo, Here in after referred to as my client. who on aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31,1999 and unfortunately lost his life.


Ref. website

http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html



Before his accidental death, he left his WILL with this Chambers requesting that his FUND(U.S.$12,500,000.00) with a BANK in LOME- TOGO here be shared among Philantropists abroad in the event of his death. This Chambers have in a

meeting resolved to carefully draw up a random pool of unknown Names and their E-Mail Addresses gotten from a variety of WEBSITES across Africa,America,Asia and Europe to determine the beneficiary of this WILL.


It is our pleasure to inform you that you were picked in a carefully RANDOM draw picked by a SEVEN YEAR OLD girl from the DIRECTORS OF FEDERAL BOARD OF INLAND REVENUE that supervised the DRAW.


Having received repeated NOTICES from the BANK to provide the beneficiary to this FUND(U.S.$12.5M) after the late family of Mr.Hamed Abdel Wahab Ahmed had withdrawn what was left for them in the WILL at the BANK immediately after

the Crash through this Chambers.We request you to indicate your willingness to accept this offer before it is too late, moreso, this Chambers have been duely informed by the BANK that this money stands to be transfered to the FEDERAL

TREASURY if we do not provide the beneficiary shortly from now.


On the receipt of your positive response, we shall firstly discuss on the sharing ratio and proceed from there. Be informed that all necessary legal procedures will be

strictly followed to back up the Claim by this Chambers, hence we had to invite the Federal Board of Inland Revenue in the first place to supervise the RANDOM DRAW, in which you were successful.


We need your honest co-operation while we guarantee you 100% success in this transaction where you are ready to co-operate with this CHAMBERS


Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation and positive reply.


Best Regards.


Dogalas James Esq.

- Dogulas James Esq

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