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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.)
  • "chambers" (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.
• 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.
  • es@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:14:26 -0800 (PST)
Subject: WITH REGARDS


Kelvin Jones Chambers & Associates
#2 Temple Gardens ,
Temple London EC4Y 9AY
United Kingdom.
NEXT OF KIN=A0=20
I am Barrister Kelvin Jones Esq., of Kelvin Jones=20
CHAMBERS & CO. This mail is written and intended to solicit your assistance=
to be presented as NEXT OF KIN to my Late Client, Mr. Edmund Miller Snr.My=
Deceased Client Edmund Miller Snr., 72, West Point,Mississippi, made a fix=
ed Deposit of Fund valued at USD$5.5M(Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand U=
nited States Dollars Only) with a Finance House here Europe and unfortunate=
ly lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlant=
ic Ocean on October 31, 1999 and left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin e=
xcept some vital documents related to the Deposit still in my possession.=
=20
The Governing Body of the finance House has contacted me on this matter and=
I am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay claims to the Fund. Under a cle=
ar and legitimate agreement with you, I shall seek your consent to be prese=
nted as the Next of Kin so that my late Clients' Fund will not be confiscat=
ed by the Finance House.For the sake of transparency on this matter, you ar=
e free to make immediate contact with me via my Private e-mail: (kelvin_jon=
es@myway.com) for further information related to this matter.=20
Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while i expect your pro=
mpt response.Yours in service,Do forward your private telephone and fax num=
bers,your contact address and full name on your reply of this mail.
Yours sincerely
Kelvin Jones Esq.
=A0
=A0=0A=0A=0A

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