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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:
  • "barrister" (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: "Mr. J Kairo" <dbrooks97@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: kairoj@hotmail.fr
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:41:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Personal Memo From John Kairo


From:  John Kairo
102 mmadiago Ave,Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso.

REQUEST FOR BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP.

I am Barrister John Kairo, personal Attorney to late Morris Thompson, an international business consultant from USA. I am contacting you independently and no one is informed of this communication. On the 31st of January 2000, Morris Thompson and his wife were involved in a  Plane Crash of (Alaska Airlines Flight 261), all passengers unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of Morris Thompson's extended relatives, but this proved unsuccessful. See the  below website about Morris Thompson's death;

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

Presently, the Bank where Morris Thompson (my client) had a Deposit valued at US$11.4m issued me a notice to provide the Next-of-Kin to my client to receive his funds or have his account confiscated, so I have contacted you to assist me in securing this fund left behind by my client before they got confiscated by the Bank. A citizen of Burkina Faso can't claim the money as next of kin to Morris Thompson, this is why I contacted you as a foreigner.

I contacted you so that two of us can reach agreement of understanding and inherit this money. Hence the bank has given me notice to provide the next of kin to my late client Morris Thompson, I now seek your consent to present you to the bank here as the Next-of-Kin to Morris Thompson (my client) so that his deposit valued at US$11.4m (Eleven Million Four Hundred Thousand Dollars) can be paid to you. Then you and I will share it; 50% to me, 40% to you, while 10% should be given to Orphanage Homes.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. You can also open a fresh account in a bank in your country which you will forward to the bank here to transfer this money. I have perfected every internal arrangement in the bank to ensure smooth release of this money. Get in touch with me soonest so that I can give you an application letter which you will send to the bank to process the money transfer.

I need the below details from you to preper the application letter without delay:  your full Name, address, Tel Number/Fax Numbers.  Call me on tel; +226 75117728.

Regards,
 
John Kairo

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