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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:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "i will advice you " (this email uses bad English)
  • "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.
  • +447031928503 (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.
  • robinhoward2000@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "robinhoward01@terra.es" <robinhoward01@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:12:33 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Dear Ham ( I Await your urgent response)



Barrister Robin Howard.
Address: Fourth Floor Northway House,
1379 High Road,
London, N20 9LP
Email: robinhoward01yahoo.co.uk
Phone: (Office) +44-703-192-8503
Mobile (Direct Mobile) +44-703-192-8853

Dear Ham,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it with seriousness. This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it be treated as such it is not a hoax mail please.

I am Barrister Robin Howard,a solicitor at law and the personal attorney/sole executor to a deceased Client of mine Mr.Ham James,
hereinafter referred to as 'my client' who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country and who died in the AF4590 France concord plane crash with his immediate family on Monday 31 July, 2000. Please view this website for confirmation of the death of my client.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since the death of my client in 31 July, 2000, I have written several letters to the embassy(United State Of America ) with an intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail. Moreso,I have received official letters in the last few weeks suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my client deposited the sum of $15 million Dallars.

On this note i decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I was urged to contact you, that I may,with your consent, present you to the "trustee" bank as my late client's surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client. I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear a similar last name with my client making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity.I propose that 35% of the net sum will accrue to you at the conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses.

Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need, first to contact me via signifying your interest and as soon as I obtain your confidence,I will immediately appraise you with the complete details as well as fax you the documents, with which you are to proceed and i shall direct on how to put up an application to the bank.

However, you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the reciept of your reply,I will send you by fax or E-mail the next step to take.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is
hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this.

Please send me your phone numbers fax number full names and complete contact address to my private and comfidencial email at robinhoward2000@yahoo.co.uk so I can call you to discuss this matter.


I Await your urgent response

Best regards,

Barrister Robin Howard.(Esq)

Note.Due to the confidencilaity of this proposal,I will advice you reply via my private email at( robinhoward01yahoo.co.uk )
thank you.





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