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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "certified bank draft" (Beware of any scheme that involves cashing checks or money orders and then wiring a portion of the funds somewhere - you'll be liable for the entire amount if the checks or money orders turn out to be fake, even after you have received and forwarded cash. If it's a lottery prize, remember that real lotteries do not pay large prizes by check. They wire the money directly to your bank account and you do not pay for that. Many scammers promise a large check only in order to then demand payment of courier fees for a fake courier service. )
• This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" 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.
  • barristergabrielohams@gmail.com
  • barristergabrielohams1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Franklin Jones" <dasanche@itesm.mx>
Reply-To: franklinjonesprivate1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:31:54 +0000
Subject: Accept this token with good faith.

Dear Friend,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family and this mail
meets you in a perfect condition? You may not understand why this mail came
to you. But if you do not remember me, you might have receive an email from
me in the past regarding a multi-million-dollar business proposal which we
never Concluded.

I am using this opportunity to inform you that this multi-million-dollar
business has been concluded with another partner from France who financed
it to a logical conclusion. I thank you for your great effort to our unfinished
transfer of fund into your account due to one reason or the other best known
to you. But I want to inform you that I have successfully transferred the
fund out of my bank to my new partner?s account that was capable of assisting
me in this great venture.

Due to the effort, sincerity, courage and trustworthiness you showed during
the course of the transaction, I have decided to compensate you and show
my gratitude to you with the sum of $750,000.00. I have left an international
certified bank draft for you worth about $750,000.00; cashable any were in
world with a law-firm in Nigeria owned by a reputable attorney, BARRISTER
GABRIEL OHAMS who actually helped in the conclusion of the multi-million-dollar
business in the legal aspect of the transaction.

I have authorized BARRISTER GABRIEL OHAMS to release the international certified
bank draft to you as soon as you contact him regarding this issue. My dear
friend, I will like you to contact this law-firm for the collection of this
international certified bank draft. At the moment, I?m already in France
and very busy here because of the investment projects which myself and my
new partner is having at hand. Please I will like you to accept this token
with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.

CHAMBERS NAME: OHAMS CHAMBERS AND ASSOCIATE
LAWYERS NAME: BARRISTER GABRIEL OHAMS
ADDRESS: 121 STEREO FM LC,
SILVER BIRTH AVEN,
234 LAGOS , NIGERIA
TEL: +234-037778803

EMAIL: barristergabrielohams@gmail.com OR barristergabrielohams1@yahoo.com

Thanks and God bless

REGARDS,
MR. FRANKLIN JONES.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam