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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)
  • "million us dollars" (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)
  • "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.
• 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.
  • +447031941808 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Allen Mccarty <fergusonmails500@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mccartywmails@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:33:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Dear Friend




Dear Friend,

This is a personal email directed to you and I request
that it be treated as such. I must solicit your
confidentiality and assure you that I am contacting
you in good faith and this proposal will be of mutual
benefit.I am Barrister Allen McCarty, the Attorney
representing Engr.Charles Kenien, who lost his life in
Tsunami disaster while on vacation with his family in
Thailand at the famous tourist resort Island of
Phuket.

Until his death he was consultant to several oil and
gas industries.He had a sojourn in the United States
and so many other countries before he came to Cairn
Energy PLC an oil and gas exploration and production
company based in the United Kingdom. He made fortune
for himself and I have been his personal Attorney
Spanning for a period of ten years.Now
to the brass task,the deceased took a Life Insurance
Policy which entitles any Surviving member of his
family to a whopping sum of $20 million Us dollars.

Unfortunately his wife and children who statutorily
are his next of kin are no more and under the existing
law here the Surviving relatives of my deceased client
becomes the benefactors.

However, I want to seek your consent to present you as
a relative to my deceased client by virtue of the
available documents to me as his family lawyer. As
attorney to the deceased the onus of proof to
establish your relationship with my client,rest on me
and to achieve this objective,there are judicial
processes involved which I will brief you in
subsequent correspondence if you indicate interest.

Please if I reach you as I am hopeful I will, endeavor
to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me
conclude my legal duty,You should forward along with
your current telephone and Fax number, your current
mailing address. Also to be sent to me is the biodata
page of your international passport or drivers licence
as a proper identification.
Yours Sincerely,
Allen McCarty (Esq)
Phone:+447031941808,




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