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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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.
  • +447024051999 (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.
  • aashoksancheti@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ashok Sancheti Esq,(LLB LLM) Ashok Sancheti" <aashoksancheti@telegraf.by>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:58:48 +0100
Subject: Good business


FROM THE DESK OF:
MORGAN WALKER & SOLICITOR,
ASHOK SANCHETI
115A, Chancerry Lane,
London. WC2A 1PR,
DIRECT LINE:+447024051999.
Email: aashoksancheti@yahoo.co.uk


Dear Sir/Madam,

I apologize using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of
this
magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on
this
medium.
I am Barrister Ashok Sancheti, personal attorney to Late Mr Andreas
Schranner, a private Businessman who was into Property Sales and Management
who
died in a plane crash (AF4590) in 2000,along with his entire family.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm for confirmation.

Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy, HERE IN LONDON to
locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has proved abortive.
Be informed that a member of the British Goverment Trade Delegation to your

country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars
to
me,hence i decided to contact you.
My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating Family Valuables
left
behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated or
declared
unserviceable, by the Security Company where his deposits were lodged.

The Security Company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have
the Valuables Confiscated, and handed over to the British Government.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating his extended relatives for over 7

years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased,so that the Valuables valued at USD$4.8 Million Dollars(Four
Million
Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) can be released to you and
then
we can share the Valuables,for your help i am willing to give you 35% of the

funds.

I have all the necessary Original official and legal documents that can be
used
to back up the this claim . All I require is your honest co-operation to
enable
us in seeing this transaction through,and a guarantee that you will not sit
or
divert my share of the valuables,when it is released to you by the Security

Firm.

I am constrained to take this action as if I don't, corrupt bank officials
would, seize the Valuables or the British Government would impound it into
the
already bloated National treasury, where it would be looted by corrupt
politicians, or used to fund unnecessary wars, that escalate and end
innocent
lives.

PLEASE REPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING:
1. NAME
2. CURRENT ADDRESS
3. PHONE NUMBER/MOBILE NUMBER/FAX NUMBER
To my secure emailbox: aashoksancheti@yahoo.co.uk
or call me on my Direct Number:+44-7024051999,so we can discuss better.

This information would enable me file an application with the Security
Company
for the IMMEDIATE RELEASE, of my late clients Funds to you as his next of
kin
and Beneficiary.

My Best regards,
Ashok Sancheti Esq,(LLB LLM)

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