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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:
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

Fraud email example:

From: Garden Court Chambers United Kingdom <gardencourtuk@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:23:15 +0100 (BST)
Subject: {Disarmed} Update On Yahoo/Microsoft {Order FL/668530092 }



Inline
Attention:Albertina,

You have to understand a few things.We
are Authorised and Regulated by the
Financial Services Authority and as
a result, you will have to follow the
policies of the British High Commission
by settling your fees inorder
for your certificate of affidavit to be
processed and granted.You will have
to follow all the instructions given
to you, to avoid any form of complications.
Since your winning funds is protected by a
hardcover insurance policy,you
will have to make the payment for your
affidavit certificate before it can be cleared
and remmitted to you .These are strictly
legal ethics.We are an institution with
a very long history of good repute and
integrity and hence we do not take
lightly to false allegation or scepticism.

The online draws was conducted
by a random selection of email addresses
from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail
addresses of individuals and corporate bodies
picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the internet. However,
no tickets were sold but all email addresses
were assigned to different
ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through
random selection in our computerized email selection
machine (TOPAZ) .Your prize money id held
right here in the United Kingdom.

Please note that as a result of your
reluctance in furthering the claims
process of your prize ,we will return
your payment file back to source at the expiry
of your claims period. A draft Letter
notifying you of the termination and
subsequent forfeiture of your prize
will then have to be sent to you.

Regards.


Barr.Gregory Newton.
Senior Legal Advicer.
















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