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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)
• 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.
  • brahimesq@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "ALI IBRAHIM" <brahim_ali101@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:01:11 +0100
Subject: Urgent Attention Needed.

Attn; Mr\Mrs,

Compliments of the day to you.I must solicit your
confidentiality and assure you that I am contacting
you in good faith and this proposal will be of mutual
benefit. I am Mr.Ali Ibrahim (Esq.), a legal
practitioner.My client,late Mr.Joshi Harris,was
killed with his entire family in a fatal
accident,sparing none of their lives, some years ago.

Before his death, I assisted him in the deposit
of $12million USD, with a Security Company for
safekeeping. The funds have remained unclaimed since
his death, and such unclaimed funds are appropriated
and returned to the treasury as a matter of policy.
Considering the lack of success in my bid to locate
any of his relatives for over a year now, I hereby
solicit your consent to enable me present you as the
Next of Kin to my deceased client.

I am contacting you for a reasons,I strongly
believe that the Security Company does not deserve to
inherit the funds. These reason led to my resolve to
claim the funds, which was why I contacted you. With
your permission, I will proceed to establish you as
the next of kin/Beneficiary to my late client.As soon
as this is done, you will then give instructions to
the Security Company, to transfer the deposited
funds into another account you will provide, after
which we shall then share the funds up on agreed
terms.I shall provide you with further details when i
confirm your reply.
I await your reply,

Ali Ibrahim ESQ
YOU CONTACT ME ON (brahimesq@yahoo.co.uk) FOR MORE
CLEARIFICATION.

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