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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: obani chambers <obani_2chambers@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <obani.2007chambers@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:53:35 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME NOW.



Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Obani Koffi. I had a late client ,a foreign national and a construction engineer here in London.I have the pleasure to contact you on this subject matter.My late client died along with his entire family while on holiday in Asia Earth Quake Disaster(Phuket Island in Thailand on December 2005. (TSUNAMI DISASTER) He left the sum of USD$6.5M with a bank and ever since his death,The said bank has instructed me to provide his next of kin.I have the pleasure to contact you so that you will stand as his bonafide next of kin and claim this Fund which he left behind. On hearing from you,I shall give you a compehensive information of what to do as regards to this.
Barrister Obani KoffiSolicitor & Advocate
36 Rue De Paris, London.
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