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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "million 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)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +2348026141681 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "MOHAMMED KEFFAS" <mohamkeffas@msn.com>
Reply-To: mohamkeffas@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:26:43 +0000
Subject: Urgent Business relationship needed

Barrister Mohammed Keffas & Chambers
(Tax, Trust, Estate $ Conveyancer )
25 Tunibu Avenue, Victoria Island.
Lagos-Nigeria.
TEL:234-802-6141681

Dear Sir,

Compliments of the season, I am Mohammed Keffas, a solicitor at law and the
personal attorney to Mr. Francois Hoel, who is the President/Chief
Executive Officer of (HGMT) Hoel
Incorporated Nigeria, Herein referred as my client.

On the 2nd, of September 1998 at: 11:16 p.m. EDT (0316 GMT ,Swissair
Jetliner, with 229 passengers on board bound from New York JFK to Geneva,
Switzerland, crashed catastrophically off the coast of Nova Scotia vanishes
from radar near Nova Scotia Halifax, my client Mr. Francois Hoel, and his
wife Mrs. Anne Sophie Hoel, with their three children Marie-Francoise Hoel,
Olivia Hoel, Paul
Edouard Hoel, were all involved in the horrific flight crash, 215 passengers
and 14 crew members unfortunately lost their lives in the disastrous crash
of Swissair Flight 111.May their gentle souls rest in glorious peace Amen.
However, I seek your urgent assistance to present you as the next of kin to
the deceased to enable you claim the sum of fourty five million five hundred
thousand Million United States Dollars Only), which is the total payable to
the next of kin. The funds have already been withdrawn from the central
bank of Nigeria and boxed. My late client deposited this cash with a
security company without them knowing the content of the boxes for security
reasons.

If you are interested in the business, a quick arrangement for you to claim
the funds will be made to avoid the cash being returned to the Nigerian
government as untraceable/unclaimed diviend.we cannot wait and see such
amount of money wasting in the government coffer. This claim must be made
not latter than three weeks time.After the business, each partner will be
entitled to receive half of the money and I will then let you know how I am
going to meet you in your country for investment disccusion.Note, that this
business is 100% legal, risk free and should be handled with
utmost urgency and confidentiality.

You can reach me on my direct telephone as indicated above for more
clearifications.

Best Regards,

Barr. Mohammed Keffas
Website of Disaster:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/07/swissair.victims.list/index.html


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