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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "abuja" (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.
  • markmark_owen4@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mark owen <markmark_owen4@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:22:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: attorney at work


>From the desk of Mark owen:
(Attorney at Law)
No: 23 Alhaji Musa ways,
Abuja FCT,
Nigeria.
Reply to markmark_owen4@yahoo.com}
Attn: Sir/Madam,
I am Barrister Mark Owen, private attorney to the late Mrs.Stella
Obasanjo, wife of the Nigerian Expresident, Olusegun Obasanjo, who died on
23rd of October, 2005 at a hospital in Spain. She had traveled to Spain
to undergo surgery and died from complications resulting from that
surgery.Below is the link

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/obasanjo.obituary/index.html
As the personal attorney to the deceased, I handle every of her affairs
most properties and funds both domestic and in overseas. In this case,
my client who left huge amount of USD and so many investments with my
signature abroad. Very soon my client’s family will call me to account
for my client’s properties and funds offshore.
At this juncture, I seek your consent to present you as the benefactor
to my client’s funds deposited in Europe which I will disclose to
you, since I have all the documents regarding the depositing of the funds.
I will procure all necessary legal documentations that can be used to
back up any claim we might make.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I promise that
you and I can share the money 60/40%. I believe my letter received a
favorable consideration from you as I await your respond as soon as
possible.
Endeavour to forward your response and your private telephone number to
my personal email address: markmark_owen4@yahoo.com ,for easier
communications.
Best Regards,
Barrister Mark Owen.



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