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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: "abusaleh2007@terra.es" <abusaleh2007@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:20:40 +0100 (MET)
Subject: RE.



>From Abu Saleh (esq)
Tel :233242325723



Dear Sir/Madam
I am Barrister Abu Saleh, a solicitor at law .I am personal attorney to late Mr Mark Pitts who died in motor accident a long kumasi-Accra road along side with his wife and the only son on the 23rd day of April 2003 and before his death he has unclaimed deposit value at $3.5million U.S in International Commercial Bank Accra Branch. He was a citizen of your country and until his dead was my client and a major contractor/expatriate with Obuasi Gold Mines in Gold coast Ghana.

I tried all efforts to trace the relatives to come forward for the cliams but all my efforts had prove fruitless and since nobody come forward for the cliams,My proposal to you is that i will like you to stand as the next of kin and the beneficiary to Mr Mark with a view of retrieving the deposit from (I C B) where is been kept for safe keeping.

As a matter of GOVT policy,any deposit that remains unclaimed for a period of five years of deposit is lost to THE GOVT OF GHANA. This is the reason why i want you to join me to act fast to put claim to this deposit BEFORE it is lost to the GOVT. You stand no risk and i am going to furnish you with all the necessary documents which you will forward to the attorney. upon your indication of interest to assist,
we shall discuss terms.

Yours sincerely,
ABU





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