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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "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.
• 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.
  • jorgeatlaw@aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Barrister Jorge Antonio Gallart"<jorgeatlaw@hotmail.es>
Reply-To: <jorgeatlaw@aim.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 01:05:59 +0200
Subject: Seeking Executor of Last Will and Testament.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re: Seeking Executor of Last Will and Testament.

My name is Barrister Jorge Antonio Gallart, an Attorney at Law in Madrid-Spain.
I am writing to notify you of the TESTAMENT of our late client Mr.Yaroslav
Zojniuk, Ukrainian who unfortunately lost his life in the Madrid Bomb
Blast on March 11, 2004.

The deceased was a prominent business man who traveled to Spain on
business survay/holiday with his wife and their only daughter when they
met their tragic death.

My client before his death made a deposit of Thirty Seven Million, Three
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$37,300,000.00) in Madrid, Spain
in his effort to set up a business empire in Europe.

However, I was mandated by our team of professionals to search for a trust
worthy person or the relatives of the deceased regarding his deposit as
the holding financial institution wants him to come forward for the
endorsement of the reinvestment documents.

This transaction is very confidential as I can re-draft his LAST WILL AND
TESTAMENT to bear your name as the TRUSTEE & EXECUTOR. This transaction
shall be executed under legitimate and legal procedures that will protect
you from any breach of the Law.

It is in this regard that I decided to solicit your assistance, by
presenting you as the Executor and Trustee to the deceased. Although, I
have agreed on the following sharing ratios: 25% for your assistance and
75% for me but this is still open for negotiation.

Kindly revert back to me urgently on your kin interest to lay claim of the
deposit with your telephone and fax numbers for more information on how to
release the said inheritance sum,procedure and legality of this claim via
this email address:jorgeatlaw@aim.com

Regards,
Mr.Jorge Antonio Gallart
Attorney At Law

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