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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  • +2348068968835 (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.
  • emekpaul@eresmas.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Paul Emeka" <paulemekaesq703@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: emekpaulesq_private@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:53:17 +0100
Subject: FROM BARRISTER PAUL EMEKA.

>From Paul& Emeka Chambers.
No. 202 Eleke Crescent,
Lagos - Nigeria.
Tel: 234-80-68968835.
Email- emekpaul@eresmas.com

Dear Friend,

I am sorry for the inconveniences this email will give you but will
appreciate if you can make out time to go through my message. I am Barrister
Paul Emeka, a solicitor at law and a personal attorney to Mr. Peter Kelly a
Nationality of your country who was a petroleum/gas consultant/contractor
with the Nigerian National Petroleum cooperation (NNPC); he lost his life
alongside his wife and only child on the 27th of January 2002 while he was
traveling.


The news about this incidence can be fined on the news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.

Late Mr. Peter Kelly made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for twelve
calenderer month valued at $10million Dollars with the International Trust
Bank Plc.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the Money Left behind by Mr.
Peter Kelly before they get it confiscated or declared Unserviceable by
Board of Directors of the International Trust Bank Plc. I have been
unsuccessful in locating his relatives, I now seek your consent to present
you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the Proceeds of this account
valued at $10million Dollars can be paid to you as the beneficiary next of
kin. If you agree, your interest will be 40% of the total sum after the
successful completion of this transaction.

All I require is your honest Cooperation to enable us seeing this Deal
through this will be executed under a legitimate Arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law. You do not have to worry about this
proposal, as the Board of Directors of International Trust Bank is 100%
behind this proposal. When we have successfully remitted the fund in your
account, you shall assist me to invest my share into any profitable business
in your country for 2 years.

Also be informed that this transaction will take us just 15 working days to
accomplish beginning from when I receive your reply.CALL ME ON
234-80-68968835 FOR A VOICE CONVERSATION OR FOR AN URGENT REPLY TO YOUR
MAIL, PLEASE WRITE ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL: emekpaul@eresmas.com

Best regards,
Barrister Paul Emeka.

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