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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (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.
  • haruna.salehkazim@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Haruna Saleh <haruna_saleh072@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:17:40 -0600
Subject: Legitimate Arrangement



Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Barrister Haruna Saleh Kazim, a citizen of Nigeria (Northern Part) and a personal Attorney/Adviser to the Late Walid Abed Bassatni, who was a citizen of Lebanon I know that this mail will be of great surprise to you but I got your e-mail address from the Internet as I was soliciting for a partner who will work with me to ensure that we get this fund transferred into an Account which you will provide for the purpose, my arm of contacting you is for you to help me so that we will secure the funds left behind by my late client in your favor to avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank, the funds valued (USD $ 14, 600.000.00) Fourteen Million Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars deposited by my late client before his death, this Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the account will be declared unserviceable and the fund will be diverted to the Bank treasury, So far all my efforts to get a hold of someone related to my late client has proved abortive and fruitless, Hence I have contacted you to enable us actualize the funds in your favor pending my arrival there in your country for disbursement and utilization.

I am actually asking for your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/ beneficiary of my late client funds, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to your account, then we can share the fund on a mutually agreed based on percentage or joint venture/partnership, all the legal documentations to back up your claim as my client/ Next of Kin to my late client shall be provided by me as the legal adviser.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us achieve this transaction, the intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any infraction of the law, However if this business proposition offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology as the processing of this fund will not take us up to two weeks.

If on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me kindly get back to me with your interest via this email address (haruna.salehkazim@yahoo.de) for further explanation.

Best Regards,

Barr. Haruna Saleh Kazim.



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