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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:
  • "necessary legal documents" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "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)
  • "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 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.
  • ibehchambers@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aibehchambers@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "TOM IBEH" <barrtomibehchambers@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: ibehchambers@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:15:50 +0100
Subject: READ CAREFUL


Sir / Madam

Re: Next of kin to my late client Eng. Adams.

I am Barrister TOM IBEH,a solicitor at law; I am the personal attorney to
late Eng.Adams, who used to work with shell - Development Company in
Nigeria. Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client. On April 25th 2005,
my client, his wife and three children were involved in a train accident in
Japan during their visit to Japan which all the families were dead. Here is
some news about the train accident:

Click on the web address:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042500187.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4480031.stm

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my
client's extended relatives, but this has also proved unsuccessful. After
several attempts to locate a member of his family, hence I contacted you. I
am contacting you to assist me repatriating the money and properties left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable to
the bank here this huge deposit were lodge. Particularly, the bank where the
diseased had an account valued at [12.5million dollars] has issued me a
notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the
next fourteen official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relative for the past years,
now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to my late client.
Since you both have the same surname and you are capable of doing this
transaction. So that the proceeds of this account valued at [12.5miilion
dollars] can be paid to you, then you and I can share the money 70% for me
and 25% for you, while 5% will be used to offset all the expenses incurred
in the course of this transaction including taxs, I have all necessary
legal documents that can be used to back up our claims. All i require is
your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this transaction through. I
guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by my email and send the following information
to me.

Your full name
Residential address
Phone and Your private email Address to enable us discuss further about this
transaction.

Looking forward to your prompt response. get back to me through my private
email address:ibehchambers@gmail.com <address%3Aibehchambers@gmail.com>

Best regards to you and your family.

Thank you.


Barrister TOM IBEH,

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