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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.

Fraud email example:

From: joseph williams <joewilly15@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:13:16 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re:RE:: URGENT MAIL.




Dear Ms.Halfrid Schultder,

Thanks so much for your kind reply. Listen Ms. Frau, The German Government will not know that you receive such money , unless you let them know. If you open a Non-resident bank account in Madrid, Spain and lodge the funds, the government in German will not know that you have such money in Madrid, Spain.

You can be instructing the bank in Spain to be transferring money to your bank account in German bit by bit. Please the issue of taxes is over, lets move forward madam.

Madam, I have informed you about myself before. I am a lawyer, that has a big chambers in Lagos Nigeria. I studied with Mohammed Abacha in the same university and we were friends right from the university, that was why he handed over this transaction to me to monitor.

Madam, I did not get all the attached documents, please resend it again along with your address, telephone mobile phone and fax numbers.

I will send you the power of attorney and deposit certificate tomorrow through scanning and after that I will instruct how you will send the stamp duty fee by western union money transfer tomorrow.

Please send the requested information today madam and God bless you and your family, Amen.

Respectfully yours,

Barrister Joseph Williams, LL.B, B.L, LL.M
Attorney to Mohammed Abacha.




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