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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:
  • "may come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "requires utmost trust" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • barredwardmattjr@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "barredwardmattjr@aim.com" <barredwardmattjr@aim.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:25:33 -0100
Subject: Business Partner!

Good Day,

However this mail may come to you as a surprise, my name is Mrs Jennifer
Dogolea Platts, a widow to Late Mr Michael Platts a businessman in Zimbabwe.
I wish to seek your indulgence and pray you view my request with essence. I
am contacting you via my attorney Barrister Edward Matt Jr. here in
Bostwana. I immensely want to seek your kind interest to co-operate with me
on this transfer proposal and your willingness to support and assist me in
this transaction.But first of all i must apologize for my medium of
correspondence, And i believe that you will understand my plight as my need
for help urgent. As i understand through your profile that you will be able
to handle this with strick confidence/honest and reliability, you should
understand that this transaction requires utmost trust and confidence for us
to succeed and I believe that you will not betray the trust and confidence
which i have bestowed on you.

If it will be posible i will even prefer you have a telephone chat
conversation to really streinghten trust and reality of this transaction, I
am Jennifer Dogolea Platts,As for my identifications i will provide you
proofs. The money in quetion I inherited from my late husband who was
murdered by the Zimbambean President and his men, Mr Robert Mugabe. I have
managed to escape to Bostwana where my husband kept this money and I have
all the needed document to transfer the money to you, all I have to do is to
transfer the deed of Ownership to your name and you become automatically the
appointed beneficiary to the whole funds, $14.5M USD.

Really,I am soliciting for your full co-operation for this tranfer and
partnership and investment in your country. What i really have in mind is
your good co-operation and your best expert advise on how this money will be
transfered and invested in your country where your leaving legally and
profitabely.I am impressed with your vast knowledge,experience and sincerely
beleive that you have the capacity by going into partnership and invest the
money properly under your management. The most important thing I expect from
you is that you should regard the transaction as yours and put your best
towards our acheiving set goals, but i must say i will rely solely on your
advise and guide because I dont live in your country and for this reason,any
investment over there will be under your management.

I will require you open account in your country and send it across to me so
that I will surbmit it to the bank to enable them process the transfer to
the new account. The transfer will stand as contract as i have to hire an
attorney who will take care of the legal documentation that will backup the
transaction.The amount in question is $14,500,000,00 Four million five
hundred thousand dollars,

Upon the confirmation of the fund into your account,My lawyer will fly down
to your country and have a tensive agreement between us as you will handle
the fund untill i am out from my surgical operation which I MUST UNDERGO.and
join you for the preceed of the business pending when it will be the desire
of God for me to get WELL,

Get back to me as soon as you open the account with the following:
1. Nominated account details
2. Your full names and address for this purpose or your company name and
address for the purpose of securing the vital documents.
3. Your personal telephone and fax numbers for communication between
yourself and my attorney.
Email:barredwardmattjr@aim.com
Looking forward for your reply
Best regards.
Mrs Jennifer Dogolea Platts,
C/o Barr. Edward Matt Jr.
Edward Matts & Associates
7001 Gaborone Bostwana
Bostwana

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