419 scam: "Thomas Dixon"<dixonthomas06@gmail.com> Confidential

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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)
- "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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447924480377
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.
- thmsdxn378@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Thomas Dixon" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <thomasdxn9@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:34:14 +0100
Subject: Confidential

Thomas Dixon Chambers and Associates
Address: 101 Queens Terrace sw1y4nd,
London, United Kingdom
Telephone:+447924480377

Good day,

Please note that this letter is not scam or hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with the seriousness it deserves, although this medium (internet) has been greatly abused, but I chose to reach you

through it because it remains the fastest, surest and most secured means of communication.

I am Barrister Thomas dixon from Guangdong Province, China based in the United Kingdom. I am the personal attorney to Davies Perusich, an American who was a contractor with the Chinese Petroleum

Mining Unit, who shall be referred to as my client. Unfortunately my client lost his life in aterrorist attack in Philippines on the 4th March, 2003 and left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin except some vital documents related to the deposit still with me. All efforts by me to trace his Next of Kin proved abortive because he did not make any will prior to his death.

I am contacting you to assist in claiming the money left behind by my late client before they get confiscated by the security company where this hugedeposit were deposited.. Particularly, the finance company where the deceased had the said fund valued at US$5,800,000.00 (Five Million Eight Hundred Thousand United Sates Dollars Only) has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin. Consequent upon this, my idea is that we can have adeal/agreement and I am going to do this legally with your name as the bona fide beneficiary of the amount in question as I have all legal documents to back our claim.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$5,800,000.00 can be paid to your account abroad, note that 45% of this money will be for you, in respect to the provision of a foreign account and 45% would be for me as I have planned to come to your Country as soon as the transfer is completed, 10% will be used for the reimbursement of any expenditure we may incur in the cause of the transaction.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law; all I need from you is your
utmost collaboration and sincerity for us to thrive in this deal. Please kindly get back to me through my private email address {thmsdxn378@gmail.com} for confidentiality so that we can proceed

with this transaction.

Kind regards,

Thomas Dixon.

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