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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:
  • "from the desk of" (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 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.
  • barrmohammedjawaid@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "barrister mohammed jawaid" <barrmohammedjawaid17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: barrmohammedjawaid@yahoo.co.nz
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:33:59 +0100
Subject: ATTN:FRIEND, HOW do YOU do?

FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID.
OFFICE ADDRESS: 15B IGBO CLOSE, SUITE 9 LAWRENCE BUILDING,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
You can contact me through my private Email Address or
Telephone(barrmohammedjawaid@hotmail.com)

Attn: FRIEND ,

It is my pleasure to reach you for an urgent business fund transfer which
your assistant is needed,I am BARRISTER MOHAMMED Jawaid, an advocate and
Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr mahmood , who used to work with
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION.On the 21st of April 2004, my
client,was involved in a car accident along Sagbama Express Road, leaving
behind his wife and two children,who are aged 6 And 3 years respectively.

Since then,members of his immediate family has constantly harrassed and
intimidated his wife,Nancy(it is actually the tradition of their native land
for the deceased brothers to inherit his properties).They have collected and
seized the late husband properties and collected his bank account papers,for
cefully confisticated and shared his cars as well as documents to his two
houses and sent her packing out of her husband`s house.

All my attempts and several other attempts by friends at resolving the
crisis by calling the parties involved to a meeting has enunsuccesful.The
law court could not handle the issue since the traditional rulers have come
out to say it`s their tradition.

Recently,the wife has intimated me about US$15.5million which the husband
lodged in a security company.Upon investigation,i discovered that her late
husband made the money through some over-invoiced contract he awarded during
his tenure as the head of CONTRACT/PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT of THE NIGERIA
NATIONAL PETRLEUM CORPORATION(NNPC) .She said,one of the relatives who used
to live with them and probably knows about the fund has instigated other
members of the family against her, with the view to collecting from her the
CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITE to this fund and probably collecting the fund for
sharing among themselves.

So,i write this letter on her behalf,seeking for your assistance in
receiving this fund on her behalf for safe-keeping and possibly investing
it to yield profits for the upkeep of her and her children.This is her last
hope of trianing her two children and living a meaningful life on earth.On
your acceptance to receive and keep thisfund for her,you will be entitiled
to 30% of the total sum,10% has been set aside to take care of all
expenses(including taxes) that might arise in the course of this transfer
while the remaining 60% is for her and her family.

She has in her possesion the original documents that can be used
foreffective transfer of the fund to you without hitches.All I require 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 the law.Please get in touch with me on
my private Email for more detial.(barrmohammedjawaid@hotmail.com)

If there is any where you do not understand kindly inform me for
clarification.

Thanks and stay bless.

BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID
PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP

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