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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:
  • "a security company " (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. )
  • "barr." (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.
• 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.
  • +34679120205 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • rolandnageli02@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Robert Roland" <robertrol02@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:57:19 +0200
Subject: Proposal


Proposal

Sagardoy Abogados
C/ Tutor, 27E 28008 Madrid
Telephone: +34 679 120 205
Email: rolandnageli02@yahoo.es

Good day to you and your beloved family. Do not be astonished for receiving
this mail. Please, I seek your permission and would want to get myself
introduce to you. I am Barr. Roland R. Naegeli. I work with the Sagardoy
Chambers in Spain. I need your co-operation in receiving USD9.5M that has
been saved in a security company for 7years as a treasury box that contains
family valuable which belongs to one of my foreign client who died along
with his entire family in a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.
I will provide you with detailed information's on the modalities of this
operation once I have your interest but I must say that trust flourishes
business because the security company do not know the content of the box.
Therefore let your conscience towards this proposal be nurtured with
sincerity and I will not fail to bring to your notice that, this transaction
is hitch-free risk and you should keep this transaction (TOP SECRET).

I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as a partner, in respect to
present yourself as the next of kin to my late client, and 65% would be for
me, thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated. Remember, you must apply first to the security company
as next of kin of the deceased, indicating your address and code of deposit
which I will give to you; I will bring you up to date with all the
information's as soon as I hear from you. If I don't hear from you within a
certain period I will assume you are not interested.

Please, I want you to visit the website below for more information's about
the plane crash and the Deceased DR.GEORGE BRUMLEY and his family.
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1390626,00.html
Meanwhile, If you are willing, capable and honest for this transaction,
Kindly indicate your interest by sending a response to my e-mail address at:
rolandnageli02@yahoo.es

Yours Truely,

Roland R N,

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