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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
  • "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)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: barr.faradinahmad@live.com.my
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:50:13 +0800
Subject: URGENT PROPOSAL.


FARADIN CHAMBERS
SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATES
N0 102-A2, Lot 3224
Mukim Batu Berendam, Malacca, Malaysia.
Tel: +6016-967-3228 or +60123904812.

Attention:

My name is Dr Faradin Ahmad, a legal practitioner with Faradin chambers in
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. I saw your contact and profile, and I decided that
you could co-operate with me in this proposition. I have a client who was
deceased in November, 2001, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I am contacting you
because you have the same surname as my deceased client and I felt that you
could help me in the distribution of funding that were left in my deceased
client's bank deposit.

This deposit is to be declared UN-serviceable by the bank as there have
been no indicated next of kin of next of beneficiary of the deposit. The
total amount of cash deposited by my deceased client is US$5,700,000.00
(Five Million and Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), only.

He confided this in me when he was alive. The bank has issued to me a
notification to contact the next of kin of my deceased client to either make
claim as beneficiary of the safe deposit, or to re-activate the period of
deposit with a monthly surcharge of 6% to be deducted as an Escrow safe
keeping
fee of the deposit.

My proposition to you is to seek your consent, and to present your kind
self as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my deceased client, since you
have the same last name with him. This means that the proceeds of his safe
deposit would be paid to you as his next of kin or the legitimate
beneficiary.

When we have the fund by our self, I want you to propose a sharing
percentage for you and me. All the legal documents to back up your claim as
my client's next-of-kin would be provided by me. The most important thing I
would need is your honest co-operation to this proposition. This would be
done under a legitimate arrangement that would protect you from any breach
of the law.

I really hope to get a positive response from you in regards to this
proposal.

Best regards,
Faradin Ahmad Esq.

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