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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • harrisonsamuel_222@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: harrison samuel <harrisonsamuel011@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <harrisonsamuel_222@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:03:58 +0000
Subject: Dear Lynne;Your INheritance.


BARRISTER HARRISON SAMUEL Senoir advocate of Nigeria[SAN] SAMUEL CHAMBERS & SOLICITORS PLOT 130 BANK ANTHONY WAY IKEJA, LAGOS NIGERIA. Dear Lynne, I am highly esteemed to write you this very urgent letter for your kind assistance which will be for our mutual benefits at the end of the day.I am Barrister John Matthew, a Solicitor and Personal Attorney to a national of your country who before his death was an oil merchant in Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG).On the 27th June 2002, my client, his wife and their only kid were involved in a car accident; all of them unfortunately lost their lives. The total amount of cash in the bank account of my deceased client is US$4.7 Million ( Say, Four Million, Seven Hundred Thousand US$ ), only.The bank had issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin of my deceased client for either to re-activate the bank account or to make claim of beneficiary of the funding in the bank account to avoid the indefinite closure of the bank account. My proposition to you is to seek your consent, and to present your kind self as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my deceased client, since you have the same last name with him.This means that the proceeds of his bank account would be paid to you as his next of kin or the legitimate beneficiary. When the proceeds in his bank account are paid to you, we would share the proceeds on a mutually agreed-upon percentage 60% for me and 35% to your kind self and remaining 5% for sundry expense incure during the procession. All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin would be provided by me. The most important thing I would need is your honest cooperation to in this proposition.This would be done under a legitimate arrangement that would protect you from any breach of the law. If this business proposition offends your moral and ethic values, do accept my sincere apology. Please contact me at once through this email address; ( harrisonsamuel_222@yahoo.co.uk ) If your interested by replying the mail and ignore it if you are not. Best regards, Barrister Harrison Samuel (SAN) EMAIL ME HERE URGENTLY; harrisonsamuel_222@yahoo.co.uk

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