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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.)
• 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.
  • barristerphilbroadbent@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Phillip Broadbent" <barristerphilbroadbent@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:48:40 +0100
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION.


ATTN:

I am the financial lawyer to the late Mr Steve Bonds and he was an oil
merchant with estment in the leading oil in Africa. He invested in lifting
oil from Niger delta in Nigeria to other countries where he sales it. He was
the highest shareholder in Shell petroleum Bp in 1994. Mr Steve Bonds met
his untimely death via plane crash in the 2002. I was contacted as his
lawyer by the Board of Directors of Shell Bp to look for the relative of
late Mr Steve Bonds to enable them transfer the accumulated share dividend
of his investment with the Diamond Bank of Nigeria Limited. It is about two
years now.

I made some research about the relatives of Mr Mr Steve Bonds and
discorvered through some DNA reports that some other two passengers in the
same plane happend to be his wife and only daughter Mr Steve Bonds who also
died along with him in the crash.

I am contacting you so that both of us can reach an agreement to enable you
act as his next of kin and claim the fund.Of course they will believe me
because I am his financial lawyer untill his death and I have all his
business documents with me.I would have use someone from here for the
purppose but the fact that late Mr Steve Bonds is a white man made it
impossible for me to present a black man as his next of kin which of course,
the bank will not honour.

All the document will be validated in your name and shall be drafted by me
to include your name in an application which be forwarded to the bank for
the claims.The money is just USD31.5Million dollars. I will personally
monitor the progress of the transaction as your lawyer.After we succeed in
transfering the money into your account, we will give some portion of the
money to charity home in your country and then share the remaining in the
ratio 70% to 30% between you and I.If you are willing to work with me in
this regard, please, forward to me through this email address:

1) Your full name and contact address
2) Your phone number and fax number ( cell phone)

Thanks and God bless you.

Regards,

BARRISTER PHILLIP BROADBENT.
barristerphilbroadbent@yahoo.com

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