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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:
  • "cost of transfer" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • 2347035207863
• 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.
  • barr_chikechiegbue@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: chi chiegbue <chi_chiegbue5@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <barr_chikechiegbue@yahoo.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:13:33 +0100
Subject: THIS IS PRIVATE!!!




Chi ChiegbueInt’l. Chambers.Plot 64-Wuse A6 AbujaTel: 234-7035207863. E-Mail: barr_chikechiegbue@yahoo.de
Atn: Sir/Madam,
With due respect, I remain Barr. Chike Chigbue (SAN) Senior advocate of Nigeria, I am writing in respect of my client his Excellency, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the former Governor for Abia State who is now facing house arrest in his home after serving the nation for a good calendar 8 years without any blemish but due to the past problems of the governor himself and some top officials of the past government they now plan around on how to confiscate my clients fund sweat, suffered acquired properties in other to render him homeless and useless. He then solicits my intervention by asking me quickly to seek your indulgence for help on how to transfer his available funds which is quite ready at Oceanic Bank Plc, in Nigeria to your safe place until his is through with his indicted charges before it’s late.

I will be more grateful if this Godly help will come from you and more so, the trust and honesty therein will be appreciated given you 15% of the total fund and for the little expenses therein, 5% will be also kept to offset at the end all you must have spent or encountered during the cost of transfer and some bank vital document. The total fund for transfer is €8,600,000.00 million (Eight Million Six Hundred Thousand Euros). Please if your interest is there to help, do not hesitate to send your bank coordinates, telephone, fax, mobile line, e-mail address for quick communications as this issue need urgency.

Could you please keep this matter with utmost secrecy and confidentiality until after 14 working days when everything must have been over. I will be there as the running attorney for all legalities and legitimacy, therein too there will be no risk involve it’s a hitch free arrangement. And as I said earlier I don’t need much exposure since my client and I are being monitored, please take note not even your friends will know for security reasons. If not the intervention of our (AGF). Attorney General of the Federation by now my client would have been denied bail in the court of Justice I really want you to verify my statement in Nigeria the truth of this. I haven’t see such a lawless country where human rights doesn’t exist please look for a good property for my clients where I can immediately shift in his families as soon as the funds are credited with you.
Remember that time is not in our favor please act swiftly on this. Even his traveling documents were seized not to go out therefore try and handle this issue with maturity and more so my reputation and image as a (SAN) has to be protected.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Best Regards.
Barr. Chike Chigbue.
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