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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.

Fraud email example:

From: "john collins" <barrjcollins5@gmail.com>
Reply-To: barrj_collins04@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:58:26 -0700
Subject: IN SEARCH OF NEXT OF KIN!!


*JOHN COLLINS.
J.COLLINS Chambers,
NO 1004 PALM AVENUE,
Victoria Island,Lagos
Nigeria.Phone;(23480-3343-1485)


Compliment of the day .

I got your contact in course of my inquiry to locate relations of my
Deceasesd Client Mr Mark ,who died in a car crash on the 13th February
2003.The reason for this is to inherit a Contracts Payment Deposits Account
of($16.5 million) of which the Deceased left in a Finance Firm.

Consequently, having gone through to your profile on Internet, I want you
to please assist me to inherit the fund into your Account. This request
emerged last week when the Finance Firm contacted me for the attention of my
Deceases Client (perhaps for one reason or the other they have tried to
contact him and was unsuccessful).

However, thereupon I announced his death and protocolsobserved, I was
mandated (as the deceased's attorney)to provide the Next of Kin to inherit
the Deposits or they will freeze it as "Unclaimed Deposits".Unfortunately,
and unknown to the Finance Firm, the Next of Kin was among the dead in the
car crash.

But rather leaving the Deposits/Account frozen hence I seek your help to
claim the fund into your Account as you share same names with the Next of
Kin and I have the required Information to execute the transaction under
legal process. Please contact me for further information and commencement
of the transaction,and I need your full mailing address,your direct
telephone number/Fax number,for this transaction to commence successfully.

Be informed that your compensation will be 40% of this fund,while 60% will
be my share. Please it is only trust and honesty to ourself will make this
claim to work out accordingly,and success will beourachievement at the end
of this transaction.


Yours faithfully,

Barr John Collins Esq.
*

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