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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "% will be for you" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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 next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +447045735847 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • barrsandra01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sandra Grant <ssssg54@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <barrsandra01@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:55:33 -0400
Subject: REPLY BACK FOR NEXK OF KIN



SANDRA GRANT LAW CHAMBERS
BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, AND CONTRACT ATTORNEYS; ACCREDITTED TO THE PARLIAMENT AND MINISTRY OF JUSTICE.
NO. 23 STRAND STREET, WIMBLEDON, LONDON - ENGLAND
TELEPHONE NUMBER: +44-704-573-5847

FROM THE DESK OF: BARRISTER SANDRA GRANT
Senior Advocate / Principal Attorney
TELEPHONE: +44-704-573-5847
barrsandra01@yahoo.com
Hello Dear ,
It is with uttermost humility and great sense of responsibility that I am contacting you to ask for your assistance in this legal business.
I am Barrister SANDRA S.GRANT, a Solicitor at law. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr. Alfred a national of your country, business contractor with BRITISH/US Shell - Development Company in London.
Before his death he deposited a total sum of $27.350M USD [Twenty Seven Million, three hundred and fifty united states dollars] which I and my partner agreed to make you his Next of Kin because you have the same last name with him and have the funds transferred to your account for sharing and investment under your custody to avoid the management confistigating the funds.
The transaction is 100% risk free relationship, all that is required from you is your reliablity, trust and not to sit on the funds when it gets into your account over there. The fund will be shared according to the agreed percentage 50% will be for you, while 50% will be for me as his attorney who will help to obtain the necessary/relevant documentations in your name as the Sole beneficiary which will be sent to for immediate action.
You are the only person in the world that I have revealed this life fortune to.Trust me, as his attorney;
Thanks Sincerely
Barrister James Cooker [BLS]
[Legal Practitioner]

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