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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.)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Ibrahim Dantata" <olu2west1@excite.com>
Reply-To: barr_dantatachamber2002@yahoo.it
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:37:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Compliment of the Season,






FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA #18 COLLEGE ROAD, OGBA, IKEJA, LAGOS OUR REF: NOK/INH/NNPC/005-069

Compliment of the Season,

I am very much obliged and compelled also to write this letter to you. Honestly, my purpose here is to establish a fact of relationship as a next of kin/estate beneficiary of my late client, Engr. James Campbell. Therefore I would want us to work out a partnership/cooperation in claiming and repatriating the UNPAID CONTRACT SUM of my late client, who was a contractor with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) here in Nigeria. Unfortunately, he died some months ago, along with his wife and three children, in a boat mishap in the creeks of Escravos, an island town in the oil rich Niger Delta region, where he was on a petroleum exploration/supervision contract for the NNPC.

Recently his CONTRACT PAYMENT at the NNPC has been approved for pay out to his next of kin/relative. And being his lawyer, the authorities have mandated me to get my late client's relatives/next of kin to claim his funds. And I have tried on several occasions in locating any without success. I am therefore, seeking your cooperation to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased, since both of you are from the same place, so that his approved contract sum at NNPC will be paid to you. I will then come over to your country for the sharing of the money.

I propose to take 65% of the money while you will take 30%, and 5% will be used to settle all expenses. I will procure all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up the claim we will make at the NNPC. All I require is your honest cooperation 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 back to me urgently for further information on how we can make this deal work. indicate your phone number and your address in your reply to enable us move into action ASAP.

Thanks in anticipation of your maximum cooperation.

Barrister Ibrahim Dantata



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