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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)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • +2348033357316 (Nigeria, 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.
  • barpategomah@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "PATRICK EGOMA" <barpategoma@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:46:20 -0700
Subject: Very Urgent Assistance Needed. Attention : Dear Friend


**
*EGOMA CHAMBERS*
*Solicitors & Advocates
# 23 / 24 Samon Cresent Victoria Island,
Lagos Nigeria. *
*Confidentail Email Address : barpategomah@yahoo.co.uk*
*Direct Line : 234-803 -335 -7316.*
* ** *
**
**
*Dear Friend,*
*I am Barrister Patrick Egoma, a solicitor & advocate of the supreme court
of Nigeria.*
*This mail is written and intended to solicit your assistance to be
presented as a next of kin to my late client. My late Client Richard
Burson, ( 77, Venice isles fl,usa) he made a fixed Deposit of Funds valued
at USD$25.5million ( Twenty Five Million Five Hundred United States Dollars
Only).*
*He unfortunately lost his life abroad Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed
into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31st,1999(**
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm>
*) and left no clear beneficiary as the next of kin except some vital
documents related to the deposit still with me. All efforts by me to trace
his relations proved abortive because he did not make any ( WILL ) prior
to his death.

The bank where he deposited his money has just contacted me on this matter
and I am yet to provide the next of kin to lay claims to the Fund. Under a
clear and legitimate agreement with you, I shall seek your consent to be
presented as the next of kin so that my late client's fund will not be
consificated.*
* I am proposing a sharing formula of 60/40 if you will agree to stand in
as the next of kin and have the funds deposited into any account that you
will nominate; please note that your presence is not needed.

Please make available to me your Phone / fax numbers, your full names and
address, your occupation, your Age and Gender, so that i can get started
with the documentations. *
*Please send your respons to my private email address: (
barpategomah@yahoo.co.uk**)


Thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours faithfully,*
*Barrister Patrick Egoma. (SAN).*

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