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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk box" (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.)
• 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.

Fraud email example:

From: barrister stanley barrister stanley <stanley.coker1@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:47:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: UPDATE ME URGENTLY 13/9/2006


From Stanley Coker jr.
Comcoba Refugges Camp,
Demsu avenue/A139-RT
Lome-Togo West Africa.
Attention: Dear Friend,
Private Message
I am contacting you for you to assit me lay claim on my late Fathers fund that he deposited with the Ecowas Security Company of Lome Togo.I am soliciting for your confidence in this matter, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top Secret. Though I know that a contact of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well since I know everything about my late fathers fund.
I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this matter. Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Stanley Coker citizen of Lebanon a son to late Engr Coker Sylvester(Snr) an oil Merchant with the Federal Government of Lebanon,who die last 6 weeks ago in War that occures in my country Lebanon. He deposited two trunk box with Ecowas Security Company worth $11.5Million) While he was here in Togo.The Ecowas Security Company now expects any of my relative to come forward as beneficiary,unfortunately my late dad did not specify a next of kin.
Now the management under the influence of the Ecowas Security Company Chairman and Members of the Board of directors, has made arrangement for the fund to be declared Unclaimed so that they can share the money among themselves. In order to avert this negative development.
All documents and proof will be sent to you by me as soon as i confirm your readyness to assit me so am assuring you that this claim is 100% risk free. Now it is left for you to decide on what you will take as your percentage for assisting me in this claim since i want to use to money to invest in your country and also to further my Uncomplited Education.Reply me upon receipt of this message.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Yours Sincerely,
Barrister Stanley Coker


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