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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:
  • "dear beloved," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +22506191610 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Barr Larry Hadi <barrlarryhadi1960@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:50:42 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From;Ladichambers


From the desk of BARRISTER LARRY HADI(Esq)
Ladichambers
RUE 134 LUE 10 COCODY
ABIDJAN
Côte D'Ivoire.
WEST AFRICA
Tel:+225-06-19-16-10

Dear Beloved,
I am BARRISTER LARRY HADI(Esq). I got your email address through our chamber of commerce, trade and industry while searching for trustworthy individual who will assit me in this transaction.

My client by Name Mr.George Brumley Jr, a retired Atlanta physician whom I have been his legal representative(attorney) for many
years died with the members of his family in a plane crash accident on Monday, July 21, 2003 on an official assignment to Kenya. He has $38,500,000.00 (Thirty eight million five hundred thousand US dollars) floating in his suspense account and all the effort I made to locate any member of his family through their Embassy here proved abortive.

Now, this money is still in the bank and nobody is coming to claim the money, the Management under the influence of their Chairman and Members
of the Board of Directors BIAO BANK CI mandated me as his lawyer to provide the next of kin or his relation and failure to do so after 4years, the fund will be said to be declared "Unclaimed" and subsequently be donated to the trust funds according to bank law here in our country.

In the light of the above, I need you as a foreigner to act as the next of kin. You will arrange for a bank account I will submit to the bank that you are next of kin to Mr.George Brumley Jr,with your account details as to where the fund will be transferred as a distance relation.

After the successful transfer of this fund into your account, I will make arrangement to come to your country so that we can share the fund, Your
share will be 40% while 10% is set aside for any expenses incurred during the course of this project both local and international, the rest of 50% will be for investment purpose there in your country.

Please this transaction is 100% risk free.
Remember to send me your phone and fax number. My regards to you and your family.
You can verify this web site;http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Best Regards,
BARRISTER LARRY HADI (Esq)
Ladichambers

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