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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: "kabul dallar" <k_dallar020@superposta.com>
Reply-To: kabul_dallar@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:01:15 +0000
Subject: From The Desk of Hon. Barrister Kabul Dallar.


From The Desk of Hon. Barrister Kabul Dallar.
OF F/K AT LAW FIRM CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES.
Off No. 06BP 54 Ouaga 03
Rue 7 Av Nelson Mandela
TEL; +226- 78 11 63 13.
Date/ 22/07/2008.

Dear Friend,

With due respect, I know this mail will come to you as a surprise. I am Hon
Kabul Dallar, the principle of FK AT LAW FIRM. I hope you will not expose or
betray the trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the
mutual benefit of our both families.
I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $20.5 million
immediately to your account. The money has been dormant for years in late
Dr. Eric Morgan's account here in my country without any body coming for it.

I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to my late client
who died a long with his supposed next of kin in the event of terrorist
attack on 11th September 2001 World Trade Center. The said deceased was one
of the best clients in my Firm so therefore, I don't want the money to go
into Bank Treasury as an abandoned fund according to the bank protocols
guiding inheritance fund here because I'm the only person in position now to
declare whom to claim the money.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you full details on how the Business
will be executed and also note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned
sum if you agree to transact the business with me.

Hon Barr Kabul Dallar
FK AT LAW FIRM

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