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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)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348038155811 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • barrlarrywilliams@officer.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: barrlarrywilliams@officer.com
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:11:39 -0700
Subject: Get back to me today




                                                 
 





FROM THE DESK OF: LARRY  WILLIAMS CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES 
NO F1553 OJO ALABA INTERNATIONAL MRT,LAGOS   
,  NIGERIA



Private Email Address ( barrlarrywilliams@officer.com) 

Dear Friend,

I am sorry to have contacted you in such a way through the internet
but i have no other option, I am by name and profesion, Barrister
Larry Williams, the personal lawyer to Late Mr. Mark, a foreigner, who
worked with an OilServicing Company in the oil rich Niger Delta Area
ofBayelsa State, I am contacting you concerning my late client and the
investments he had before his death worth US$12.8 million deposited
with one Diamond Bank Plc Nigeria.

I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail
confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by
as a result of this mail. I contacted you independently and no one
should be informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you
with certainfacts that I believe would be of interest to you. I have
tried and could not succeed in search of his relatives, which
motivated me to get in contact with you to help in repatriating the
fund Valued at US$12.8 million left behind by my late client before it
gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where this fund
is deposited.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased
so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. On receipt of
your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and
modalities for transfer. I know all the necessary information and
legal documents needed to back you up for the claim. All I require
from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction
through. I will like you to get back to me with the information below
to open a file here in my office for you before the bank presentation,


Full Name:.......................
 
MaritalStatus:..................
 
Home Contact Address:................................
 
Country of Origin:.................................
 
Private Phone Number...................
 
Occupation,....................



Private Phone Number: +2348038155811.

Sincerely Yours.
Barrister LARRY WILLIAMS
Age:...............

Sex: .................

I will proceed with you immediately I hear from you.For
confidentiality and security of this transaction, kindly reply to my
personal e-mail address: barrlarrywilliams@officer.com

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam