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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)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "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" <barr_mohammedjawaid26@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: barrmohammedjawaid2003@yahoo.co.nz
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:25:51 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID.

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 I
need your assistance. I am BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID, an advocate and
Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to late mahmood , who used to work
with NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION.

On the 21st of April 2006, my client was involved in a car accident along
Sagbama Express Road, leaving behind his wife and two children who are at
the aged of 6 And 3 years respectively.
Since then, members of her late husband immediate family has constantly
harassed 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 the bank
account papers, for carefully confiscate 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 unsuccessful. The
law court could not handle the issue since the traditional rulers have come
out to say it’s their tradition.

Recently Mrs. Nancy has intimate me about US$15.5million which her late
husband lodged in with a security company and Upon I 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 PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC) .She told me
that 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 DEPOSIT to this fund and
probably collecting the fund for sharing among them selves.

I am writing 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 training her two children and living a meaningful life on earth. On
your acceptance to receive and keep this fund for her, you will be entitle
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 position the original documents that can be used for
effective 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 detail. (barrmohammedjawaid@hotmail.com)

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

Thanks and stay bless.

BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID
PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP

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