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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 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.
  • +2348053243105 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • barristerfemi_1962@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • barristerfemi_99@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Barrister Femi William <barristerfemi_1962@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: barristerfemi_99@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:32:29 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GET BACK TO ME


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: barristerfemi_1962@yahoo.com

>From : Barrister Femi William(SAN)


Email:barristerfemi_99@yahoo.com




I am Barrister. Femi William, a personal lawyer to Mr. Herve Garboudes

who operate an account with a finance house who perished in a plane

crash [Swissair Flight 111] with his wife and two children and the

whole passengers aboard on september 2nd 1998. See link below for more

details.




http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/


http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/


http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcripts/




Since the demise of this my client, I personally has watched with keen

interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one

has come to claim his funds deposit of US$10 m, [THIRTY FOUR MILLION

DOLLARS] which has been with Finance Company for a very long time. On

this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the

Next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the

banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than eight years,

becausemoney will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after

this

period.




In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal after

realizing that you might stand as next of kin to the deceased. And with

respect to your personality, I will give you 40% of the total

sum while 60% will be mine. Upon the receipt of your response, I will

send you email on the next step we shall follow for us to actualize the

transfer of the funds to you for our mutual benefit.




I will not Fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch

free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for

fund transfer can be finalized within 10 banking days.When you receive

this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail or call me on my private mobile

phone signfying

your interest. +234 80 53243105



Respectfully,


Barrister Femi William.(SAN)

- Barrister Femi William

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