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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "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.
  • cmpbllesq@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?CAMPBELL=20ESQ?= <cmpbllesq@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: campbellesq@johanjordan.com
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:21:40 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PLEASE IS URGENT


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: cmpbllesq@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Friend,

Though this approach appears desperate, difficulties

encountered in efforts to secure a relaible business partner abroad necessitate this search for someone to assist my client in securing

and investing the sum of USD25 million(twenty Five

Million dollars) deposited in my clients name abroad

In any case, I am a Solicitor resident and practicing in LONDON UK and I am using this correspondence to urgently seek and request your assistance and cooperation in a sensitive but highly beneficial financial arrangement. An important client of mine whose details and person I cannot release at this point has implored me to contact a reliable and trustworthy partner overseasto urgently receive and handle funds total TWENTY-FIVE MILLION, UNITED STATES DOLLARS(US$25M)in CASH presently in a consignment,lodged in a security/finance outfit overseas.

Due to my client inability to travel out of his countrypresently and the fact that he continues to accumulate huge debtsdaily as long as this consignment remains in the security/finance company.


we need an associate and partner to proceed as soon aspossible to receive this funds for investment purpose as shall be instructed by my client. We have agreed in principle to give twenty-Five percent (25%) of the total sum to whom ever shall handle this funds for us while the remaining sixty-five percent (65%)shall be for my client and ten-percent (10%) for me as the attorney. As soon as you are ready to proceed to receive this cash on our behalf we shall furnish you with the details and information you will need to accomplish this task.


Please be rest assured that this arrangement is absolutely risk

free And cannot implicate you in any way. However I implore you to handle this matter with urgency and utmost confidence even if you donot intend to execute the project for us. Whatever the case,please acknowledge receipt of this mail via my e-mail address If your response is positive we shall proceed immediately without any delay.


Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation and hoping to hear

from you soonest.


Yours sincerely,


Barrister,Campbell Jones (LLB).






- CAMPBELL ESQ

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