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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)
  • "barrister" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024032854 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: "fort williams" <fort_williams02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: fort_williams01@myway.com
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:34:20 +0000
Subject: X5.8 million pounds.

Barrister Fort Williams.
Address: Fifty Floor Northway House,
1379 High Road, London, N20 9LP
Phone: Direct +44-702-4032854


Dear Friend,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with seriousness.
This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a
day that people meet and become great friends and business partners this is
a personal email
Directed to you and I request that it be treated as such it is not a hoax
mail please.

I am Barrister Fort Williams, the personal attorney/sole executor to a
deceased Client of mine, His name are (Mr.Andreas Schranner), here in after
referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil magnate in my
country and who died in the AF4590 France concord plane crash with his
immediate family on Monday 31 July, 2000.

Please view the BBC web page for confirmation of the death of my client.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since the death of my client in 31 July, 2000, I have written several
letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives
whom shall be
Claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such
efforts have been to no avail. More so, I have received official letters in
the last few weeks suggesting a
Likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line
with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of £5.8
million pounds. On this
Note I decided to search for a credible person and finding that you are a
foreigner, I was urged to contact you that I may, with your consent, present
you to the "trustee" bank as
My late client's surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim
to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client. I find this
possible for the fuller reasons
That you are a foreigner with my client making it a lot easier for you to
put up a claim in that capacity. I propose that 35% of the net sum will
accrue to you at the conclusion
of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses.

Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need,
first to contact me via signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain
your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the complete details
as well send you the documents, with which you are to proceed and i shall
direct on how to put up an application to the bank.

However, you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will
forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail the next
step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is
hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required
arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I
said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this.

Please send me your phone numbers fax number full names and complete contact
address so I can call you to discuss this matter.


Best regards,

Barrister Fort Williams. (Esq)

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