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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.)
  • "barr." (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.
  • barrister_fredwilliams2005@yahoo.co.uk
  • barrister_fredwilliams2005@yahoo.co.uk
  • barrister_fredwilliams2005@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "fred williams" <barrister12@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:16:37 +0100
Subject: NEXT OF KIN


FREDRICK WILLIAMS CHAMBERS & CO.
(SOLICITORS, ADVOCATES/NOTARY PUBLIC)
Applegate House, Riverside Road,
Pottington Business Park
Barnstaple, EX 31 1LS.
London -England.
Private e-mail(barrister_fredwilliams2005@yahoo.co.uk

NEXT OF KIN


Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Fredrick Williams, of Fredrick Williams CHAMBER & CO. This
mail is written and intended to solicit your assistance to be presented as
NEXT OF KIN to my Late Client.

My Deceased Client Edmund Miller Sr., 72, West Point, Mississippi, made a
fixed Deposit of Fund valued at USD14.5M (Fourteen million, five hundred
thousand United States Dollars Only) with a Security Firm here in Europe and
unfortunately lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed in to
the Atlantic Ocean onOctober31, 1999Ref(View:
<http://www.bromike.com/departed.html>
documents related to the Deposit still with me.

The Governing Body of the Security Firm has contacted me on this matter and
i am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay claims to the Fund. Under a clear
and legitimate agreement with you, I shall seek your consent to be presented
as the next of Kin so that my late Clients\' Fund will not be Confisticated
by the Security Company.

For the sake of Transparency on this matter, you are free to make
immediate contact me via my e-mail
address:(barrister_fredwilliams2005@yahoo.co.uk) further information related
to this matter. Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while we
expect your prompt response.
Yours faithfully,

Fredrick Williams Esq.(Senior Partner)
(L.B Hones) B.L PhD.

Note. Send your response to my private
email:(barrister_fredwilliams2005@yahoo.co.uk) ASSOCIATES:Dr. Bryan Smith
(LL.B (Hones.), BL., PhD) Prof. Aliyu
Hassan (LL.B (Hons) Barr. Fred William Jnr (LL.B Hons.) Anthony
Abraham (LL.B

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