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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:
  • "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.
• 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.
  • johnomar250@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: john omar <johnomar254@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:30:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: BARRISTER JOHN OMAR


BARRISTER JOHN OMAR CHAMBER
West ham City london.
Tel: 00 44 701113 7315

ATTN:The CEO,

I am Barrister.John Omar,personal attorney to late Dr. Mohammed Piet of Pakistan, who died on the 7th of July 2005 in a suicide bombing attack here in London two years ago. On July 7th, 2005,a Pakistan Oil consultant with the briton Petroleum Corporation, Dr.Mohammed Piet made a numbered time(Fixed)Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at £17,600,000.00 (Seventeen Million six hundred thousand pounds) with First Citi Trust Finance Company.

Several enquiries have been made to locate any of my client's extended relatives but has proved unsuccessful. This is because my client is not a British and had no wife or children and I discovered that Dr. Mohammed Piet did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents,including his Bank Deposit paperwork in the Bank where he deposit the fund.This sum of [£17,600,000.00] is still sitting in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.

After these several attempts of locating the relatives of my late client for a year now No one has ever come forward to claim the fund,my proposal is that I want you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Dr.Mohammed Piet of Pakistan so that the fruits of this old man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials here in london.This is simple, I want you to provide immediately your full name and address so that i will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits which will put you in place as the next of kin to my late client.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this dealt through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law,There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by me and The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 50% for me and 50% for you as soon as we conclude this transaction.

If you are interested, please reply immediately via my email address:johnomar250@yahoo.co.uk.

Upon your response,I shall then provide you with more details regarding this transaction.Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest parts my share in your country.May The Almighty God Bless You.Awaiting your warn respond.

Regards,
Barr. Mr.JOHN OMAR
West ham City London.
Tel: 00 44 701113 7315



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