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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: william03@microcamp.com.br
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:53:16 -0200
Subject: YOUR REPLY IS URGENTLY NEEDED




Dear Friend, My name is William Coker,a solicitor of the supreme court
of Nigeria and I write to follow up my last email to you some couple of days
back inwhich I inted to work out modalities on how best you and I can jointly
stop the Bank from confiscating this money which by proven fact is your legal
inheritance.





Please permit me present you to the bank as the next of kin to the deceased
with the view that this total sum of sixteen million,six hundred thousand
u.s. dollars ($16.600 000) can be handed over to you and thereafter you and I
alongside a collegue of mine can share the money in the ratio of sixty percent
(60%) to us and fourty percent (40%) to you.





Take note that I will use my position as a Nigerian legal practicioner to
procure all necessary legal documents relating to the claim and your
assumption of position as the bon-fide next of kin and as well foster
appropriate measures by which the transaction can be executed under a
legitimate and timely arrangement that will protect you from any risk,danger
or breach of the law even as it relates with your position and status back
home in your country.





If you are reliable,willing to assist me, then send me YOUR FULL NAME,REGULAR
ADDRESS AND PHONE/FAX NUMBERS preferably through my email to enable me
commence proccedings with the bank and if you are not interested and could
not in anyway be of help, Please do not write back.





Thanks,Your's faithfully,William Coker (Esq)PP.W. Coker & Associates.


_________________________________________________________
Microcamp

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