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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "million united states dollars" (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.)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • barristerwolebobby2006@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "barr bobby10" <barrbobby10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barristerwolebobby2006@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:04:02 +0100
Subject: CAN YOU HELP???

Law Chamber Principal Attorney
Wole Bobby & Associates
44, Kofo Abayomi Avenue,
Victoria Island,
Lagos-Nigeria.
Email; barristerwolebobby2006@yahoo.co.in
 
Dear Sir/madam,
 
Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I
believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact
that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on
your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar
with events.Well, I am Barrister Wole Bobby, a Solicitor. I am the Personal
Attorney to Mr. Steve Anderson , who used to work with Agip Oil Company
in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 2003, his wife and their three
children were involved in a car accident along Abuja Express Road.
Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any
of my client's relatives, this has also 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 to assist in repatriating the money left behind
by my client in a Finance Company. Particularly, the Finance House
where the deceased deposited the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United
States Dollars only).Consequently, this Finance House issued me a notice to provide the
Next of Kin to claim the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States
Dollars only) in their custody within the next ten official working
days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over
2 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of
the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the
fund will be transferred to your account by the Finance House.
 
Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet
with you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will share
the money in this order: 70% will be for me, 30% will be for you. I
have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we will
make with the Finance House.
 
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this
deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
 
Best regards
Barrister wole bobby,
Principal Attorney

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