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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:
  • "affidavit of claim" (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. )
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "affidavit " (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (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.
  • +447031838875 (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.
  • barristermartins_rodger@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barrister Martins Rodger" <mrodger11@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: barristermartins_rodgers@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:12:46 -0700
Subject: I SEEK YOUR CONSENT


Good day!

My name is Martin Rodger. I am a solicitor with Falcon Chambers London UK
and the personal attorney to Engr. Lukman Kumar, the President /CEO
Tranfield Worley Company Who died with his family in the July 2000, Air
France crash.
For your confirmations, please visit:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Although he left no record of any next of kin or closed relatives, I have
made several attempts to locate any of my clients extended relatives, which
had proved unsuccessful.As a matter of fact, my client deposited the sum of
1,700,000.00GBP (One Million Seven Hundred Pounds Sterling Only) with a Bank
in London, United Kingdom and stocks worth ?3.9 million (with unclaimed
dividends) being managed by his stockbrokers..

And consequently, the Bank has issued me a final mandate to provide my
client`s next of kin or have the fund liquidated or taken to the state
treasury.

However, base on my unsuccessful search for his relatives for the past six
years now, and for the fact that you share the same nationality with my late
client I therefore seek your consent to present you as the next of
kin/inheritor to my deceased client, so that the money will be transferred
to your account for us to share on an agreed percentage of 55% for me, 40%
foryou and 5% for the less privileged. As his personal attorney I have all
the legal documents and all it takes to backup the claims, while the rest
affidavit) could be processed through the British Crown Court of Her
Majesty.

To swear this affidavit of claims, I need the under-listed information.

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Your full name and address ;
2. Your private phone and fax numbers :
3. Marital status :
4. Age :
5. Occupation :
6. National Identity card.:

Thereafter, I shall proceed to the Bank to formally file in an application
of claims in your names and subsequent transfer of the funds to you as the
next of kin.

All I require is your honest cooperation. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement and no government involvement at
all. For more information about me please visit the Chambers Website:
http://www.falcon-chambers.co.uk/members/member.cfm?id=165

I look forward to hearing from u as soon as possible. Contact me on my
private email; barristermartins_rodger@yahoo.co.uk

Best regards!

Martin Rodger, QC.
+447031838875(mob.)

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