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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • robert_curtis133@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "mr robert curtis" <robert_curtis133@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:10:32 +0400
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE

Sir,

Permit me that I am contacting you by this means being my first communication with you. I am Mr. robert curtis ESQ, Legal Director with the First Gulf Bank, Dubai Main Branch, Dubai – United Arab Emirates.

One of my clients by name Mrs. M. Veronica Al Qasseemi is under going a divorce case with her husband from one of the royal families here in United Arab Emirates. Mrs. M. Veronica Al Qasseemi has a total sum of US$9,750,000.00 which her late father left with my bank the First Gulf Bank, Dubai Main Branch in a fixed deposit account which Mrs. M. Veronica Al Qasseemi is the next of kin.

My client Mrs. M. Veronica Al Qasseemi due to her ongoing divorce case with husband, wish to relocate the funds to someone who can be her fund manager so that the husband family will not know about her inheritance from late husband because she is afraid they might use their power to seize the funds.

I therefore request for your involvement to be Mrs. M. Veronica Al Qasseemi fund manager so that I as the legal director with the said bank will guide you to claim the funds as business partner to Mrs. M. Veronica Al Qasseemi’s late father so that my client husband family will not have the knowledge that the funds is her inheritance.

If you are interested, kindly confirm the bellow to me then we commence on the claim. You are to provide me with your details such as:

1 Your full name, profession and age
2 Company name and address (if any)
3 Your phone and fax contacts

Upon your response, I will give you all the procedures and will also give you access to communicate directly to my client Mrs. M. Veronica Al Qasseemi.

Please reply me on my private email at: robert_curtis133@hotmail.com

Barrister. robert curtis.

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