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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "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.)
• 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.
  • ivoryassociates1@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Keith Harris" <ivoryassociates5@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:36:49 -0500
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED FROM YOU IMMEDIATELY.

Ivory Associates &
Chambers Barristers & Solicitors
800 Lea Bridge Road,
London
E39 6AJ
EMAILCONTACT ME VIA: (ivoryassociates1@aim.com)

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE
This e-mail message from the law firm of Ivory Associates & Chambers
Barristers& Solicitors is for
the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidentialand
privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by
others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or
authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply
email and delete all copies of this message

I appologise to you for any inconveniences caused if his mail does not meet
your demands,though I do not intend to embarass you by the contents of this
very mail. I am Barrister Keith Harris. I was the personal Attorney to Late
Engr David Orlick who was a citizen of your Country but lived and did his
business here in London with his family and he was the CEO of Suh
Properties before his sudden death along with his family. Since then,
several enquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives have also
proved abortive. Hence, after these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided
to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family
hence I contacted you.

This mail is written to solicit your assistance to present you as next of
kin to my Late Client.Before
his sudden death,he made a fixed Deposit valued at USD22million (Twenty Two
Million United States Dollars Only) with a bank here. Unfortunately he lost
his life aboard an EgyptAir Flight 990, a giant twin-engine Boeing 767 on
the way from New York to Cairo, with 217 people aboard. It had taken off
from Kennedy Airport in the middle of the night, climbed to 33,000 feet, and
flown normally for half an hour before mysteriously plummeting into the
Atlantic Ocean sixty miles south of Nantucket. He left no clear beneficiary
as Next of Kin.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200111/langewiesche

The Bank has searched for the relatives for more than four years without any
success and after 6 years,no claims are made by any of the deceased next of
kin,the money will be sent to unclaimed accounts and embezzled by the
corrupt bank or government officials. It is against this bank drop that the
bank has contacted me as the Late depositor's Attorney to contact and
present to them my late Client's next of kin so that the deposit can be paid
to him or her.

This is why I have contacted you.Anybody I present to the bank as the next
of kin will be accepted and therefore I wish to present you . Upon your
acceptance, I shall give you other details for the successful claim of the
fund. I have secured

from the probate registry, an order of Mandamus to locate any of the
deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that this business is
100% risk free. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavour to
reply me immediately,if not please disregard this email.

Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while I expect your
prompt response.

Yours faithfully,

Barrister Keith Harris

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