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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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.)
  • "barr." (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.
  • davidturneresq@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "David Turner Esq." <davidturnerchamber002@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: davidturneresq1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:23:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Message from David Turner Esq.


DAVID TURNER CHAMBERS & CO.
(SOLICITORS, ADVOCATES/NOTARY PUBLIC)

NEXT OF KIN

I am Barrister David Turner Esq., of DAVID TURNER CHAMBERS & CO. This mail is written and intended to solicit your assistance to be presented as NEXT OF KIN to my Late Client, Mr. Edmund Miller Snr.My Deceased Client Edmund Miller Snr., 72, West Point, Mississippi, made a fixed Deposit of Fund valued at USD$14.5M (Fourteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) with a Finance House here Europe and unfortunately lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 1999 and left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin except some vital documents related to the Deposit still in my possession.

The Governing Body of the finance House has contacted me on this matter and I am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay claims to the Fund. Under a clear and legitimate agreement with you, I shall seek your consent to be presented as the Next of Kin so that my late Clients' Fund will not be confiscated by the Finance House. For the sake of transparency on this matter, you are free to make immediate contact to me via my Private e-mail address:davidturneresq@gmail.com for further information related to this matter.
Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while i expect your prompt response.

Yours faithfully,
David Turner Esq. (Senior Partner)
(L.B Hons) B.L PhD.


ASSOCIATES:
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Dr. Byran Smith (LL.B (Hons.), BL., Ph.D) Prof. Aliyu Hassan (LL.B (Hons)
Barr. David Turner Jnr (LL.B Hons.) Anthony Abraham (LL.B Hons)


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