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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)
  • "hundred thousand u.s 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)
  • "with absolute secrecy" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
• 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.
  • barristerjohnbellochamber2yk@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: john bello <jbello378@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <barristerjohnbellochamber2yk@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:07:49 -0600
Subject: URGENT



Tel: +234 1 4156144 Fax: +234 1 4736495

Dear friend

I apologies if the contents of this letter are contrary to your moral ethics , but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal .I am an employee of a commercial Bank here in Nigeria and an Account Officer to a deceased customer who is a National of your country, We lost this customer and his family in an auto crash here in Nigeria someyears back and his account valued at US$ 10,800,000.00 (Ten Million, Eight Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) with us it has been dormant and unclaimed due to unavailability of a next of kin / relatives to claim his estate, since his son whom he used as his next of kin died with him in the crash .

In accordance with the Es-cheat laws of Nigeria, the Board of Directors of the Bank met a forth-night ago and resolved to turn the estate of the deceased over to the Government having waited for too long without the deceased relatives / next of kin surfacing, and if this is done, invariably the funds will end up becoming Government property .It is against this backdrop that I am moved to contact you considering the fact that a known relative of him have not been Located.

I am seeking your co-operation and understanding to stand as the deceased next of kin to enable us claim this fund before the time period given by the Bank elapse .Hence, If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of the trust I hope to bestow on you, then kindly get back to me immediately, strictly via my privateEmail-address:barristerjohnbellochamber2yk@yahoo.fr, and fax number above, write to enable me enlighten you on how we are to proceed.

I will not contact any person or company until I hear from you, so as to enable me decides on what to do next. Is rest assured that it is a risk free project and the proceedings will be shared 50% each once the funds are repatriated into your account either there in your country or elsewhere.

I await your prompt response, Regards, John Bello.
NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER YOU ARE RELATED TO MY LATE CUSTOMER OR NOT, THE FUND WILL STILL BE PAID TO YOU, SINCE I AMPRESENTING YOU AS HIS NEXT OF KIN, BASED ON THE FACT THAT I WAS HIS PERSONAL ACCOUNT OFFICER, SO WHOM EVER IS PRESENTED BY ME WILL BE PAID.



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