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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:
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • will_okoro2@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: BARR FELIX KOLOMA <barrfelixkoloma012@msn.com>
Reply-To: <Will_Okoro2@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:01:03 +0000
Subject: CONTACT MY ACCOUNT MANAGER IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR REWARD!!!





Attn:Sir/Madam,

This is to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred into a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner from India who is an international businessman.Presently,i am in India with my family handling some investment projects here with my new partner.

However,in appreciation of your past assistance I have mapped out the sum of $800,000.00 USD as a reward compensation for your past and unforgotten efforts to help me then.I've instructed my Account manager before my departure for India to prepare an ATM/Master Card that works in any ATM machine all over the world in your favor.I've also told him you will be contacting him for the delivery of the ATM Card.

So please feel free to contact my Account Manager with the below informations with your data which includes your full names,address and telephone number.So that he could finalise arrangement and dispatch your card to you.
Below are his contact informations.

Name: MR WILLIAMS OKORO
Email: Will_Okoro2@hotmail.com
Tel:+234-1-727-7688.

Send your informations to him so as to enable him activate your card with your information and mail it to you immediately.

Best Regards,
BARR.FELIX KOLOMA
KOLOMA CHAMBERS ESQ

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