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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)
  • "the consignment " (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "the diplomat " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist 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 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.
  • doug_blk2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: doug blake <doug_blk@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: doug_blk2@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:25:01 +0100
Subject: Orbach's Estate


>From the Desk of:
Barrister Doug Blake(ESQ),
Trowers & Hamlins
Sceptre Court 40 Tower Hill
London.EC3N 4DX
Email Address: doug_blk2@yahoo.com <http://us.f575.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=doug_blk2@yahoo.com>
Dear Trustee,
This email may be a surprise to you because you did not give me the
permission
to do so and neither do you know me but before I tell you about myself
I want
you to please forgive me for sending the mail without your permission.
I am Barrister Doug Blake, a solicitor at law. I am the personal
attorney to late Mr. Christian Orbach, who died as a result of a plane crash on
Wednesday, 26 July, 2000 in Germany.Before the ugly incident he was a
consultant to several oil and gas industries. He had sojourn to so many
countries before he came to Cairn Energy PLC oil and gas exploration
and Production Company based in the London, United Kingdom.He was a knight
in the Church and belonged to several non-governmental and scientific
organizations.
He was also great philanthropist and a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary
ClubInternational.
As Late Mr. Orbachs attorney, I was called upon by the Financial
Security Institution in London where my late client had lodged a consignment
with the fund content as fixed deposit of $5,000,000 USD (Five Million
United States Dollars). The financial institution is not decleared unclaimed
hence my reason for this contact to you.The financial institution has issued me
a notice to contact the next of kin, or the Consignment lodged by my client will
be confiscated. My proposition to you is to seek your consent to present
you as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my late client, so that the
proceeds of this Consignment can be shipped or delivered to you with the help of the
diplomat working with the financial institution in London, then we can share the
funds
in the consignment. The website shown below will brief you in a more
elaborated
detailed insight about the rough incident of the plane crash that led
to the
death
of my client.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/851119.stm
Your interest is awaited for immediate process.
Best Regards.
Barrister Doug Blake,
(Esq).

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