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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (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.
  • lugardmegwara1@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "BAR LUGARD MEGWARA" <lmegwara18@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lugardmegwara1@myway.com
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:19:50 -0900
Subject: DEAR FRIEND

Barr. Lugard Megwara
Legal Practitioners
Solicitors At Law
No: 55 Pyne Cresent,
Victoria Island,
Lagos-Nigeria.
EMAIL: lugardmegwara1@myway.com

Hello,

Your name and e-mail address came up in a random draw conducted by our law
firm, (Megwara Chambers & Associates) in Lagos,Nigeria.

I am Barrister Lugard Megwara, the Legal Adviser and counsel to a deceased
expatriate contractor who used to work with Zenith Oil and Gas Company here
in Nigeriathereafter shall be referred as my late client.On the December
26th 2003,my client and his entire family died in a plane crash in cotonou,
Benin Republic.

You will read more stories about the crash onvisiting this web


site:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/

He was a well known philanthropist before he died,he made a Will stating
that $20.5m (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand USA Dollars Only)should be
donated to any philanthropist of our choice overseas.

We have made a random draw where your name and e-mail address was picked as
the beneficiary to this Will. I am particularly interested in securing this
money from the bank, because they have issued a notice instructing us to
produce the beneficiary of this Will within two weeks or else the money will
be credited to the Government treasury as to law here.

It is my utmost desire to execute the Will of our late client in your favour
and therefore, you are required tocontact me immediately to start the
process of sending this money to any or your designated official account.

I urge you to contact me immediately for further details bearing in mind
that the Bank hasgiven us a date limit.

Information needed are:

YOUR FULL NAME...................................................

TELEPHONE NUMBER..............................................

OCCUPATION........................................................

AGE.....................................................................

SEX......................................................................

Please kindly contact me via my private mail
address, (lugardmegwara1@myway.com).

Regards,
Barr. Lugard Megwara (ESQ).

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