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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "LAmin JAtta" <laminjatta250@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: laminjatta@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:14:20 -0600
Subject: Assistance Needed

Barrister Lamin Jatta (Esq)
Attorney-At-Law
# 12, Kairaba Avenue,Serekunda,
Banjul,The Gambia.


I know this proposal certainly will come as a surprise.since you neither
know me nor have seen me before. Well as you read on, you will know how I
got your name and why I decided to contact you at all. I am Lamin Jatta, a
solicitor at law. I am the personal Attorney to Mr Micheal a national of
your country, who was a private business man in Gambia. On the 21st of April
2003, my client, his wife And child were involved in a ghastly automobile
accident along Banjul Express Road,and all occupants of the vehicle
unfortunately lost there lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients
extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these
unsuccessful attempts.I decided to track his last name over the
Internet,possibly to locate any member of his family.Hence my contacting
you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property
left behind by my client, before the deposited fund get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged.

The deceased has a Deposit certificate valued at about USD7.2million
dollars, which was in my custody, and the Bank has issued me a notice as the
deceased private attorney provide the next-of-kin or have the account
confiscated within the next thirty official working days.I have been
unsuccesful in tracing my late client's relatives for over years.I now seek
your consent to present you as the next-of-kin of the deceased; since you
have the same surname.so that the proceeds of this account valued at
$7.2million dollars can be paid to you. After which both of us will proceed
to share the proceed on a 60/40 bases.

Be assured that this transaction is 100% risk free and that all the
necessary papers to back up the claim would be arranged upon your
affirmation. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
deal through.

I guarantee that this whole transaction will be done legally and that no
local or international law will be abrogated. Please get in touch with me by
either email or fax.

Best regards,
Lamin Jatta (Esq).

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