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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states 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)
  • "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 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.
  • robertj@k.ro (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: robertj@k.ro
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:31:27 +0100
Subject: URGENT MAIL

From The Desk of Barrister
Robert J. Beaud Esq.
London, United Kingdom.
Contact me on my alternative email address(robertj@k.ro)

Dear Sir/mADAM

I am Barrister Robert James Beaud from London. A solicitor at law, I was the Personal attorney to late property magnate Mr. Mark who died in Greek air crash with his wife Maria and their only daughter Andrea. No survivors
in Greek air crash. All 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner are feared dead after it plunged into a hill near Athens after an apparent drop in cabin pressure.

Please go through this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4150312.stm

I have contacted you because you have the same last name with my late client. And to assist me to get most especially, the money left behind by my late client before it get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
bank.The deceased made a lodgment valued at about 12 Million United States Dollars and the financial nstitution has permitted me to provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated. I want to present you as the next
of kin.

This is what we will do. I want you to furnish me with the information's stated below to enable me open a claim file and application that I will present to the bank introducing you as the next of kin to my late client.

1. Your full name
2. Phone Number/Fax Number
3. Home/ Office Address
4. Your Age
5. Occupation
6. Sex

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal 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 to enable us discuss further about this transaction.

Contact me on my alternative email address (robertj@k.ro)

Best Regards,

Robert J. Beaud

Anti-fraud resources:

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