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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "charles soludo" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • barristerjames@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "CHARLES" <soludo006@excite.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:02:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT.


Dear Hannah,Thanks for your mail and its contents well noted.You dont have any thing to worry about in this transaction, all you have to do is to go and contact this attorney JAMES UCHE on his direct telephone number 234 80 69350076 or email him on his email barristerjames@myway.com with all your informations like, your telephone numbers, contact address. Tell him that you want him to go on your behalf to release your iheritance fund for you at the central bank of nigeria.Please feel free to contact him and get back to me with his response.My regards to you.Prof.Charles Soludo.

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