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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.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • molare_chambers_ghana@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "molarechambers3 ghana" <molarechambers3.ghana@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:39:43 +0100
Subject: YOUR ATTENTION IS URGENTLY NEEDED........


Leland Molare Chambers
Solicitors and Advocates
123, East Legon Accra,
Ghana.
molare_chambers_ghana@yahoo.ca

Dear,

I am highly esteemed to write you this very urgent letter I am
Barr.LELANDMOLARE, a Solicitor and Personal Attorney to Steven. A.
Howard, who before
his death was a Gold merchant in Ghana. On the 4th May 2002,my client his
wife and their only kid were involved In a plane crash,Three of them
unfortunately lost their lives. Let me refer you to the front page of (BBC)
World Newsof Saturday, 4 May 2002,). You can check it through their
websiteat).NEWS and CNN.com NEWS ARCHIVE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/05/05/nigeria.crash


Since the demise of my client,I have kept a close watch of his deposit
records and accounts and since then nobody has come to claim the money in
this a/c as next of kin to my late client.He had only USDd$9.7Million in his
a/c and the a/c is coded.Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to
claim the deposit as next of kin,I hereby ask for your cooperation in using
your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a
foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you.

At this point I am the only one with the information because I have removed
the deposit file from the safe.By this doing,what is required of you is to
send an application to the bank where this funds are, laying claims of the
deposit as next of kin to the deceased officially to the director of the
bank.I will need your full name and address,telephone and fax number for the
processing of the transfer in your name and favour.Finally i want you to
understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is
occassioned by the fact that my client was a foreigner and for that reason
alone a Ghanian cannot represent as next of kin. When you contact me,then we
shall discuss on how the money will be split between us,Trusting to hear
from you.

I remain Respectfully yours,


Best Regards

Barr Leland Molare(ESQ)

+233 276 283 228

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