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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +27826697469 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Bill Johnson <billjohnson_attoneyschambers@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:38:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BARRISTER BILL JOHNSON CHAMBERS URGENT.


BARRISTER BILL JOHNSON CHAMBERS.

Attention: Fr Clarimonde Burgerler
..
Compliment of the day, I would want to know what is still keeping you from responding to my last mail.

As i writing to you now the Awarding Company has been writing to me for more than two times now to know the level of process am with you towards the claims of your winning sum,telling me or you to come for clearification or you will lose your winning sum and i have no reason to give or what to tell them yet.

The Bank also wrote to me through the contact of the Awarding Company about your pending sum, please i don't want you to spoil the image of this chamber,the Awarding Company is taking this Chamber as inactive and i don't like it,if you know that you don't want me to work for you let me know so that i will know what to tell them,i have worked with the Company for years now and i don't want your case to stop me working with them.

Finally i would advise you to contact me on my phone number +27 82 669 7469 and stop delaying me,the company thinks am inactive in your case.I await to hear from you soon.

Thank you,
Fr Clarimonde Burgerler









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