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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:
  • "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.
  • +447024092170 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448709745129 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • tom2mal@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • tom4mal@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Bar. Thomas Malcolm" <tmalcolm13@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: tom2mal@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:31:33 +0000
Subject: From Bar. Thomas Malcolm (Urgent Business Proposal)

MALCOLM CHAMBERS
7 Queens Yard, Whitepost Lane E9 5EN London.
Private Tel: +44 702 4092170
Private Fax: +44 870 9745129
E-mail: tom2mal@yahoo.co.uk or tom4mal@gmail.com

From: Bar. Thomas Malcolm (Esq.)

I am Barrister Thomas Malcolm personal Attorney to Ronald Lake and his wife Joyce Lake who on the 31st of January 2000 were involved in a Plane Crash (Alaska Airlines Flight 261) which unfortunately all the passengers lost their lives, since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of there extended relatives but this proved abortive.

Since it is not compulsory that the Next-of-Kin must be a blood relation to the deceased, hence I contacted you to present you to the Bank where the deceased my client had a deposit before his death, be informed that a Next-of-Kin could be anybody, Friends, Church, School or Organization etc.

Presently, the Bank where the deceased (my client) had a Deposit valued at US$10, 500, 000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) issued me a notice to provide the Next-of-Kin to my client to receive its benefit or have the Funds confiscated, so I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating this Funds left behind by my client before they get confiscated by the Bank.

To this effect, I now seek your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next-of-Kin of the deceased (my Client) so that the proceeds of this Benefit valued at US$10, 500, 000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) can be paid to you as the Next-of-Kin, thereafter you and I can share it; 50% to me, 40% to you, while 10% should be given to any Orphanage Home.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement with the Bank authorities that will protect you and I from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me via E-mail: tom2mal@yahoo.co.uk or tom4mal@gmail.com with the below details immediately you acknowledge the good receipt of this message.

Full Name:
Full Address:
Tel No.:
Fax No.:
Mobile No.:
Private Email:
Occupation:
Country of Origin:
Marital Status:
Age:
Sex:

Your prompt response is highly imperative.

Yours sincerely,

Bar. Thomas Malcolm (Esq.)
For: Malcolm Chambers.

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