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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)
  • "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.
• 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.
  • barnwalioba@mail.vu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Leonard Nwalioba" <nleonard6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: leonwalioba@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:59:52 -0800
Subject: YOUR KIND RESPONSE NEEDED Kwak

ATTORNEY LEONARD NWALIOBA (SAN)
PLOT 189 SATELITE TOWN.
LAGOS - NIGERIA.
EMAIL:barnwalioba@mail.vu


ATTN: Kwak,

I am Barrister Leonard Nwalioba (SAN) I am the Personal Attorney to Mr. W.
Kwak,a foreigner, who use to work with BENCOV ENGINEERING COMPANY here in
Nigeria, on the 2nd of Dec. 2002, my client and his wife ,got involved in a
car accident, 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 several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence
I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund
left behind by my late client because the bank has asked me as his lawyer to
produce his next of kin.

Particularly, Bank have given me a notice to provide the next of kin to
claim the contract valued at about US$7.5 Million Dollars or have the amount
confiscated, since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for
over years, now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased since your a foreigner and have the same surname so that the
proceeds of this account valued at US$7.5Million can be paid to you.

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 of your country
and my country too as a professional legal attorney in the field.

Finally, kindly maintain confidentiality between me and you on this
transaction. Please get in touch with me by my email for further discussion
I await your urgent response.

Best regards,

Barrister Leonard Nwalioba (SAN)
Legal Director.

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