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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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (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.
  • +447035905444 (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.
  • wwwcomingcomings@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Emanuela Tom <tom_emanuela@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:47:38 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT NEXT OF KIN














Hello

Dear, Sir
 
I am Barrister Tom Emanuela, the Personal Attorney to Mr. Phillip Kim a national of your country and  a co founder of Siemens Echo System in Hampshire south east of England.

On the 21st of April 2005, Mr.  Kim, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along M3 Motor Way on his way back from a holiday trip with his family with his caravan.
Unfortunately they all lost their lives in the event of the accident.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.  After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family
but to no avail, now because of your surname I contacted you to see if theirs any link.
Sir, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged.  I have every documents of the deceased, his life insurance and deposits in his fixed accounts worth  about twenty seven million pound sterling.
The bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within
the next twenty official working days.
I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same country.  I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this work through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.  Please get in touch with me by email to enable us discuss further.
 
Yours faithfully,
Barr. Tom Emanuela
+44-7035905444
wwwcomingcomings@sify.com
NB: Please indicate your full interest by including
your private telephone
number and your full details.




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