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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (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.
  • +2348026383142 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • osagie_chambers01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Bello Osagie" <bell-osa1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: osagie_chambers01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:29:23 +0100
Subject: Attn: Coronado

OSAGIE CHAMBERS SOLICITOR & ASSOCIATES.
109 MARTIN STREET OLD OJO ROAD
LAGOS NIGERIA.
TELEPHONE: +234-80-26383142
PRIVATE EMAIL(osagie_chambers01@yahoo.co.uk)

Attn:Coronado ,

I am Barrister Bello Osagie Esq. a solicitor at law. I am the personal
attorney to late Mr. Martin Coronado , a national of your country, who used
to work with Chevron Oil Company in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 2001, my
client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a car accident
along sagbama express road.

All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I
have made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my clients
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. 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.I have contacted you
to assist in repartrating the fund valued at US$10.5million left behind by
my client before it gets confisitcated or declared unserviceable by the
Security Finance Company , where this huge amount were deposited. The said
Security Finance Company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin
or have the account confisticated within a period of time. For the fact that
I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I
seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased, since
you have the same last name with my client, so that the proceeds of this
account can be paid to you.

Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the
sharing ratio and modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information
and legal documents needed to back you up for claim.All I require from you
is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I
guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.Please get in touch with me through
this email address for more details.

Best Regards,
Barr.Bello Osagie

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