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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "million dollars" (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)
• 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.
  • barrpeteradams_org@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: barrpeteradams@microcamp.com.br
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:20:21 -0300
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED.




CONFIDENTIALITY
NOTICE:
This mail
transmission
is
beensent
by a
lawyer.
It
contains
information
that
isconfidential,
privileged,
proprietary,
or
otherwiselegally
exempt
from
disclosure.There
is no
intent
onthe
part of
the
sender to
waive any
privilege,including
the
attorney-client
privilege,
that
mayattach
to this
communication





Dear
Sir/Madam,





I am
Peter
Adams, an
attorney
at law. A
deceased
client of
mine, who
hereinafter
shall be
referred
to as my
client,
died as
the
result of
an auto
crash in
November
2000.





I have
contacted
you to
assist in
distributing
the money
left
behind by
my client
before it
is
confiscated
or
declared
unserviceable
by the
bank
where
this
deposit
valued at
7.5
million
dollars
is
lodged.





This bank
has issued
me a
notice to
contact
the next
of kin,
or the
account
will be
confiscated.My
proposition
to you is
to seek
your
consent
to
present
you as
the
next-of-kin
and
beneficiary
of my
named
client,since
you have
the same
last
name, so
that the
proceeds
of this
account
can be
paid to
you.





Then we
can share
the amount
on a
mutually
agreed-upon
percentage.
All legal
documents
to back up
your claim
as my
client's
next-of-kin
will be
provided.





All I
require
is your
honest
cooperation
to enable
us see
this
transaction
through.





This will
be
executed
under a
legitimate
arrangement
that will
protect
you from
any
breach of
the law.
If this
business
proposition
offends
your
moral
values,do
accept my
apology.Please
contact me
at once to
indicate
your
interest
at
(barrpeteradams_org@myway.com)





Best
regards,





Barr
Peter
Adams


_________________________________________________________
Microcamp

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