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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.
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +447024064503 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • jbakeh@netscape.net
  • james_bakeh02@hotmail.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "james bakeh" <james_bakeh08@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:23:32 +0100
Subject: Confidential Business Request

FROM: MR. James Bakeh
14, Cameroon House, Wyndham Road,
Camber well, S.E. 5 OUJ. London UK.


I am MR. James Bakeh a British citizen and I am 43 years of age. I am
married with three kids, I work with a Finance Company in London UK.

I am the accounting officer of Mr. Nelson Owen who died on the recent bomb
blast which occurred in London on the 7th of July 2005.

Mr. Nelson Owen who is our Client with Account Number UBS 101-720-4 has left
the sum of Seven Million one Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars
($7,120.000.00) for deposit, this Amount is yet to be credited in his favour
before he died on the recent bomb blast in London.

I am contacting you to act as my partner to enable us transfer the funds to
your account as the deceased established next of kin as all document has
been carefully procured.

You will have to open an account with the Finance House so that the account
will be credited to you while you shall receive 30% of the fund I and my
colleague will have 70%.

If you are interested in this transaction please fill the form below and
return back to me to enable the complete procedure to be effected.

The name of the Finance and Security Company and all relevant information
will be given to you when you contact me on my private e-mail addresses
below;

Email:jbakeh@netscape.net
or;
james_bakeh02@hotmail.co.uk

Tel:+44-7024064503

Treat with utmost confidentiality.

Yours trully,

MR. James Bakeh

PERSONAL DATA

FULL NAMES:________________________________________

GENDER____________________________________________

DATE OF BIRTH:_____________________________________

NATIONALITY: _______________________________________

COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: ___________________________

MARITAL STATUS: __________________________________

HOME ADDRESS:____________________________________

OFFICE ADDRESS:___________________________________

TELEPHONE NUMBER:________________________________

FAX NUMBER:________________________________________

OCCUPATION:________________________________________

POSITION HELD:______________________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________________

NEXT OF KIN:______________________________________

_________________________________________________________________
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