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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:
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "@lawyer.com" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +2289346213 (Togo, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • barr.thomgeorge_chamber@lawyer.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "tompson george" <tom_george1515@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:21:36 +0000
Subject: FWD: Endavour to call me upon receipt please.

From Thompson George Esq.
#16 Rue du Blouvard,
Lome City, Republique du Togo.

Phone: +228-934-6213
Email: barr.thomgeorge_chamber@lawyer.com

ATTN: With due Respect,

It is with heartfelt hope that I write to seek your co-operation and assistance in the context stated below. I know that a deal of this magnitude will make anyone worried and apprehensive but I am assuring you not to be, as all will be well at the end of this endeavor.

I am Thompson George Esq., a solicitor at law, the personal Attorney to a late Mr. Nicolas Portier, foriegn expatriate who hails from your country. On the 4th of July 2001, It was reported to us, that my client, while returning from Vacation with his family from Russia, all died in the Tupolev-154 crash leaving from Black Sea holiday resort of Anapa to St Petersburg

For more information about this crash and people, visit this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5274958.stm

Particularly, the Bank has given me a mandate as his attorney, to provide his next of kin or the funds (in excess of USD46.2 Million) will be revoked within the next 15 working days. Hence the reason I establish contact with you to assist me by standing as his next of kin since you bear same surname with him, so that the proceeds of his account will be transferred to you.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 4years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to my Late client since you are a foreigner. You will be renumerated with 40% of the total funds for your assistance. If in affirmative, kindly furnish me with your following details:

Your Full Names,...............................................................

Residential Address, .........................................................
Telephone/fax  Numbers, .................................................

Age,...................................................................................

Occupation .......................................................................

Marital status ..................................................................

so that I will commence in the securing of all the legal documents to put you in place as the heir to my late clients estate.

Best Regards
Thompson George Esq.

Reply to my Alt. Email: barr.thomgeorge_chamber@lawyer.com

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