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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "barrister" (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.
  • +2348022135601 (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.
  • barrauduahmed@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr Audu Ahmed" <barraudu_ahmed@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barrauduahmed@myway.com
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:28:44 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED.

BARRISTER AUDU AHMED & ASSOCIATES CHAMBERS.
PLOT 45 OJO ROAD,
LAGOS NIGERIA.
TELEPHONE:+234-80-221-35601

Attn; Groot,

I am Barrister Audu Ahmed,a solicitor at law.I am the Personal Assistant to
late Engr.Fredrick Groot,a national of your country, who used to work with
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),lagos-Nigeria.On the 21st of
June 2003,my late client, his wife and their three children were involved in
a car accident along Sagbama Express Road.

All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I
have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my late
client's extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful. After these
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the
Internet, to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence I
contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and
property left behind by my late client before they get confisicated or
declared unserviceable by the security company in Accra-Republic of Ghana,
where this huge deposits were lodged.

Particularly, the "security company" where the deceased had a deposit valued
at about $7.5 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the "next of
kin" or have the deposit confisicated within the next three official working
weeks. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over
18 months, I seek your concent to present you as the relative and "next of
kin" to the deceased since you are from the same country so that the
proceeds of this deposit valued at $7.5 million dollars can be paid to you
and then you and i will share in this ratio, 40% to me and 35% to you, while
20% will be shared to various charity homes, old peoples home and motherless
babies homes,while 5% will set aside for miscellaneous expenses made by both
parties. I have all necessary deposit documents I took out from his shelve
when i heared of their death, that can be used to back up any claim we may
make.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law as this deal has nothing to do
with my country Nigeria.Please get in touch with me through my private
e-mail Address: barrauduahmed@myway.com Or Telephone numbers
:+234–80-221-35601 to enable us discuss further.With an assurance that you
will not sit on the fund when it is finally claimed in Ghana.

Please contact me for further information and commencement of the
transaction.

1, Your full name,
2, Your full contact address,
3, Your direct telephone numbers for some more discussions and directives as
we commence.

Yours faithfully,

Barrister.Audu Ahmed Esq.
(Principal consultant}

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