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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:
  • "huge deposit" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money)
  • "barrister" (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 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.
  • +2348026442466 (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.
  • lbarr1louis@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "louischambers" <barr_louis9@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: barr1louis@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:59:16 -0700
Subject: CLAIM AS NEXT OF KIN TO MY LATE CLIENT

FROM:Louis mbanefo(ESQ)
Louis mbanefo & Associates,
711 C,Close Attorney,s Ave,
Victoria Lagos - Nigeria.
Tel:+234-8026 4424 66

Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Louis mbanefo,the Personal Attorney to {Mr, Frank Rocha},A foreigner who used to work with Aluminium Associates company in Nigeria.On May 4th 2002, Air Crash in Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, my client, his wife And their three children were involved. View this website so that you will understand
www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/nige-m07.shtml
A Nigerian passenger plane crashed into a densely populated suburb of the city of Kano in northern Nigeria at about 1.35pm on May 4, killing at least 148 people. The Nigerian Red Cross said that a minimum of 148 bodies had been recovered, with 49 people seriously injured. The final death toll is expected to be much higher, according to rescue workers. Hundreds of local people have been made homeless. Since then I have made several enquiries to many embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist me in repartrating the money left behind by my client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the finance house where this huge deposits were lodged.
The plane was owned and run by Executive Airline Services (EAS), a small private Nigeria-based company. It had taken off just three minutes earlier from the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport and was heading for the commercial capital, Lagos. It plunged to the ground, ploughing into inhabited shacks and other buildings, before exploding in flames and starting a number of fires. At least 10 residential buildings, including a mosque and a school, were destroyed before the plane came to rest and exploded into flames.
Particularly, the finance house where the deceased had an account valued at about $8.2 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confisicated within the next ten official working days. since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 3years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at $8.2 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and i can share the money. 55% to me and 40% to you,while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require,I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make, If you are interested please send the following information.
{1}. YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
{2}. YOUR FULL NAME
{3}. YOUR AGE AND YOUR OCCUPATION.
{4}. YOUR IDENTIFICATION.
{5}.YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE NUMBER.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through . I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Please get in touch with me by my secured and confidential e-mail address or the above stated private telephone number to enable us discuss further.

Best Regards.

Louis mbanefo{SAN}
General Secretary Federal High Court of Justice Lagos-Nigeria
NOTE: Please get back to me through my private box
{lbarr1louis@yahoo.com}

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