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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr. Riaz Hussain" <riazhus@rediffmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: barrriaz@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 09:49:11 +0100
Subject: Can't Allow This

Attn:Please,
I am so very sorry if I pried into your privacy but due to your honesty,I am convinced that you would be capable to provide a way out. I am Barr.Riaz Hussain of Atkin Chambers London. I am writing on behalf of my late client Mrs. Andréa Eich,a successful businesswoman from your country who based here,she died unfortunately with her family (Her Husband and Two Kids) in an air mishap in July 2000.

I am contacting you simply to assist in claiming her deposited assets valued at US$13M before it gets confiscated by the Netherlands Bank.The Bank has written us sometimes last year but now issued us a final notice to provide any of her relatives for this payment or have the assets channel to the Netherlands National Treasury as unclaim fund within the next 5 working days.

Since there was no relatives or next of kin left in our record,I seek your consent to present you as her only surviving relative,so that this funds can be paid to you. Therefore,on receipt of your expression of interest (EOI), I have agreed that you will inherit 45% of this fund for your help and sincerity,45% for my firm while 10% for the refunds of processing expenses and to pay tax in your country(if any) upon successful confirmation of this funds in your bank account.Thereafter,all the related legal documents will be destroyed and we part ways.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of her relatives,my aim is to usher you in legally as her relative since you are of the same Nationality so that the fruit of her labour will not be in vain.All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.

Please urgently call or get in touch by email if you can handle it.

Best Regards,
Barrister.Riaz Hussain
Atkin Chambers (Legal Practitioners)
1 Atkin Building,Gray's Inn,London WC1R 5AT.
Tel:(44)703 183 6601(8am-18gmt Mon-Fri)
Fax:(44) 208 328 3581
www.atkinchambers.com/barristers/riaz_hussain.php

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