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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.)
  • "@lawyer.com" (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.
  • +447031959081 (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.
  • williamuk_jack@lawyer.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: WILLIAMS JACK <willijack4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <williamuk_jack@lawyer.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:48:16 -0500
Subject: I DESIRE TO HEAR FROM YOU



Attn:
It is with heartfelt hope that I write to seek your co-operation and assistance in the contextstated below, I am Barrister Williams Jack,the personal Attorney to the late Mr. Robert Blanc. I got your contact through the help of directories from a newsletter of a regular magazine, having noted the confidence reposed on your person by the sponsor of the recommendation.
My late client was the Chief Executive Officer of {Shell Gas Direct, UK } for 10 years and he wasretired on the 30th day of September 2002. After a month, my client and his entire family died ontheir way to a Conference in an Automobile crash on the 13th day of November 2002. Before his death my client had a total sum of $10,652,000.00(USD) with a Finance House hoping of transferring the fund to his country {JP Morgan Chase Bank USA } after his retirement as soon as he comes back from the conference.
According to the {DEED OF WILL} made be my late client, He wrote {DEED OF WILL} that if anything should happen to him, that I should make sure I locate any of his family member. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for more than 3 years now I seek your consent to act as his relative so I can present you as the next of kin of the deceased since your name relate to his name (Blanc) my late client name or for the fact that you hail from the same geographical region. I agree to pay you 45% of the fund as the account owner, 55% for me andother officials in my Chambers.
Please do provide the following information for the application processing.
1. Your full name:2. Contact address:3. Email:4. Phone number:5. Mobile number:6. Age (Date of Birth):7. Occupation
All this information will enable me write an application to the bank on your behalf. And present youto the bank as the real next of kin to my late client. All required is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this business successful. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law.
Robert Blanc was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow his hard earned wealth to be confiscated by the greedy directors of the finance house.
Thanks and God bless.Barr. Williams Jack (ESQ).Ben & Associates16 Hare wood PlaceHanover SquareLondon W1S 1BXTelephone: +44-703-195-9081 Contact: williamuk_jack@lawyer.com
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