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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:
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • jchambers300@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Jennifer Chambers" <makifo@erciyes.edu.tr>
Reply-To: jchambers300@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:22:56 -0000
Subject: THIS IS MY FINAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION TO YOU.

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. Jürge
Krügger. I once again notify you as my earlier letter was returned
undelivered. I wish to notify you that the late Engr. Jürge Krügger made
you a beneficiary to his will. He left the sum of Thirty Million, One
Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30, 100.000.00) to you in the Codicil and
last testament to his WILL.

This may sound strange and unbelievable, but it is real and true. Being a
widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or
simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who
wished you good. Engr. Jürge Krügger until his death was a member of the
Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers.

According to him this money is to support your humanitarian activities and
to help the poor and needy in the society. Please if I reach you as I am
hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me
conclude my job. I strongly advise you contact me with my personal email
address (jchambers300@hotmail.com). I hope to hear from you in no distant
time as I await your prompt response.

Yours in Service,

Jennifer Chambers
Partner
Attorney at Law
Allen & Overy LLP, UK

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