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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:
  • "trunk box" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "trunk boxes" (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)
  • "million us 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)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "sani abacha" (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 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.
  • kttchambers07@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: kabiru turak <kttchambers07@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:26:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE


BARRISTER KABIRU TAHIRU TURAK CHAMBERS
Legal Practitioners / Notary Public
Blk 804- Law House Building
Lagos-Nigeria.
E-mail: kttchambers07@yahoo.com
Tel/fax: 234 1 555 9231

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
; ; &nbsp; SIR,

It is my humble pleasure to write you this letter Irrespective of the fact that you do not know me.

However, I am in search of a reliable and trustworthy Person that can handle a confidential transaction of this nature.

I am BARRISTER KABIRU TAHIRU TURAK, a family lawyer to our former military ruler, General Sani Abacha who died suddenly in power some years ago. Since his untimely demise, the family has suffered a lot of harassment from the regimes that succeeded him. The regime and even the present civilian government are made up of Abacha's enemies. Recently, the wife was banned from Traveling outside Kano State their home state as a kind of house arrest.

Although, a lot of money have been recovered from Mrs. Abacha since the death of her husband by the Present government, there's still huge sums of money in hard currencies that we have been able to move out Of the country for safe keeping to the tune of US$6.3 Million.

This money US$6.3Million is in three trunk boxes already in EUROPE, and if you are interested, we will prepare you as the beneficiary of the total funds, and you will share 25% of the total funds after clearance from the Security Company. For more and detailed information about this I refer you to this website.
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It may interest you to know that recently similar transaction was carried out with one MR. Paulo Zigalo of Milano Incorporated Italy who came to the security company after our agreement cleared one of the boxes containing $2.1million, on my arrival to Italy for our agreement this man was no where to be seen, this is how we lost one of the box containing $2.1million US dollars. So I am being careful this time.

Note, there is no risk involved in this project because l am involved, as Abaca’s confident. Therefore contact me on my Tel/fax: 234 1 555 9231 or email me kttchambers07@yahoo.com Please you should keep this transaction a top secret and we are prepared to do more business with you pending your approach towards this project. I await your urgent response.

Thanks.
Yours Faithfully
BARRISTER KABIRU TAHIRU TURAK


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