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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:
  • "necessary legal documents" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "accredited attorney" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • barrister.sullivan_hassan@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "barr.sullivan hassan" <hassan_sullivan15@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:58:17 +0000
Subject: VALUED ATTENTION



Attention: Sir/Madam, I am Barrister Sullivan Hassan, The Personal Attorney and adviser to late Engr. John Carlos Schwartzer, a citizen of America. I'm contacting you on the death of my late client late Engr. John Carlos Schwartzer, who died including his wife & children, on his way home from the air-port here in Nigeria in a fatal car-crash on the month of February 2003, along the Port Harcourt air-port road. On January 2002, my late client, who is also an Oil consultant with Exxon-Mobil oil exploration Company, a Multinational company here in Nigeria. Late Engr. John Carlos Schwartzer made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit valued at USD15, 500,000.00 (Fifteen Million Five Hundred thousand United States Dollars) without my notice, in the Bank here in Nigeria.With the recent letter from the Bank to me on the maturity of the said deposited fund, and as a result of the demise of my client and his entire family, I have sent an official letter to his referee on the establishment of the Fixed Deposit Account (Sultan Muhammadu Macido) who is a close friend to my late client to assist me in locating the relative of my late client late Engr. John Carlos Schwartzer, which he promised to assist me on, but with the recent plane crash here in Nigeria on the 29 October 2006, that lead to the death of the Sultan Muhammadu Macido. Which you can read more on this website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6099856.stm After a thorough investigation on this account, I also discovered that Engr. John Carlos Schwartzer did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in the Bank. This sum total of USD15, 500,000.00 (Fifteen Million Five Hundred thousand United States Dollars) is still lying in the Bank here in Nigeria as dormant account, due to no one has ever come forward to claim it, as in accordance with the Banking Law here in Nigeria that 4 years without some one coming forward for the claim, the money will be revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if the account owner is certified dead and nobody comes forward for the claim. There is no other means of getting in contact with his relation. This is the situation, so I am contacting you and seeking for your partnership, to work with me as to present you as the next of kin/relation to Engr. John Carlos Schwartzer, and have this claim processed in your favor for the immediate transfer of this money into a Bank Account that you should provide as the beneficiary, pending my arrival their in your country for the disbursement and utilization. Since we have few days left, as to thwart the revert arrangement of this fund to the ownership of the Government. To embark on this arrangement, you should furnish me immediately with the following details:-1) Your Name in Full.2) Age.3) Occupation.4) Your Full Contact Address.5) Your Confidential Telephone (Mobile/Fax). There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transfer will be done by me the Attorney of my late client and I will obtain all necessary legal documents and letters of administration in your favor for the transfer. This transaction is guaranteed. I will use my position as an accredited Attorney to get all legal documents to facilitate and effect the transfer immediately in your favor. As I have resolved that on the final transfer of this money in your favor should be shared thus:-50% should be for me.45% is for you as my partner.5% for reimbursement of every expense immediately the funds get into your Account. Please reply immediately via the private email address below. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Forward your urgent and confidential reply, to this my private e-mail account :(barrister.sullivan_hassan@yahoo.com). Yours Sincerely,Barrister Sullivan Hassan.
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