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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:
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "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 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.
  • +447031836413 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • richard.smith72@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: rich smith <rich_smith2esq@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:26:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Endeavor to read


Sir,
I seek your permission to introduce myself and this business opportunity to you. I am Barrister Richard Smith, an accredited legal attorney at law. I wish to know if we can work together to accomplish a great business objective for our mutual benefit.

I would like you to stand as the Next of Kin to my late client who unfortunately died in the plane crash in Nairobi Kenya Airways Flight 431 in 16,355-foot Lenana Peak on Mount Kenya, Monday July 21 2003. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website, http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

The deceased who was my client had no child and was divorce to his wife before his untimely death without making a will to any person as his Next of Kin. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the fund £4.5 Million (British Pounds Sterling) which he left behind in a fixed deposit account with his bank before his untimely death.

Now it has been over four (4) years of the incident and the fixed deposit account has now matured . The board of directors of his bank has issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to my late client who is to inherit the fund he left behind. Meanwhile, I have made several efforts to locate any of the extended relative to my late client but without success.

It was for this reason that I contacted you so that I can position you as the Next of Kin to my late client to enable you take advantage of the fund he left behind for our mutual benefit otherwise, the fund will be confiscated and decleared unservicable by the bank.

Note that I have every proof to influence all the necessary formalities that will position/authenticate you as the true legitimate next of kin to my late client to enable you administer over the funds with his bank. We shall disburse the proceed of the account on equal right of 50% percent for you and 50% for me. I shall give you comprehensive details on how the transaction would be carried out successfully as soon as I hear from you.

Please, kindly treat this proposal with top secret. Do not hesitate to make the following information available to me which I will use to prepare the necessary documents of claim that will position you as the Next of Kin to my late client.

You can reply me through this email adress,richard.smith72@gmail.com


(1) Your Full Name/Address
(2) Your Private Telephone Number
(3) Your Occupation/Age

I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.

Best regards,

Barr. Richard Smith
+44-703-183-6413.


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