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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • f_keyamo_chambers@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Festus Keyamo" <barrf_keyamo97@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: f_keyamo_chambers@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:16:26 +0100
Subject: YOUR URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

Dear Friend,
 
All correspondence to my alternative Email address: f_keyamo_chambers@yahoo.co.uk for prompt response
 
Get back to me immediately for neccessary steps concerning this notification,Sequel to your non reply of my earlier email to you Previously .My client who shared same last name with yours died few years back without leaving a will behind,in the course of my investigation as his attorney I discovered that he had a valued sum of $32 million deposited with Inland Bank.
 
The committee has approved the transfer of $32 Million dollars to your account as being payments for inheritance of fund of your late relative for the construction and maintenance of the Warri and Porthacourt refineries since couple of years ago.
 
Please let me know , How you want the money to be transferred to enable me submit and file in an application of claim to the Bank for payments .The Bank has given me mandate to produce the beneficiary of the fund as the family Lawyer.
 
Send your full name /telephone and fax for prompt response.
All correspondence to my alternative Email addres f_keyamo_chambers@yahoo.co.uk for prompt response.
 
Regards Barr.
Festus Keyamo
family lawyer

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