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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:
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "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.
  • +447045752678 (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.
  • talktomalcolm@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MALCOLM CHAMBERS <talktomalcolm6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <talktomalcolm@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:13:47 -0400
Subject: THIS IS OUR LAST NOTICE TO YOU



MALCOLM CHAMBERS11 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn London WC2A 3QB, UKPrivate Tel: +44 704 5752678Private Email:talktomalcolm@yahoo.co.uk From: Bar.Thomas Malcolm (Esq.) I am Barrister Thomas Malcolm,personal Attorney to Ronald Lake and his wife Joyce Lake who on the 31st of January 2000 were involved in a Plane Crash (Alaska Airlines Flight 261) which unfortunately all the passengers lost their lives, since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of there extended relatives but this proved abortive. Presently, the Bank where the deceased (my client) had a Deposit valued at USD$20, 500, 000.00 (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) issued me a notice to provide the Next-of-Kin to my client to receive its benefit or have the Funds confiscated, so I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating this Funds left behind by my client before they get confiscated by the Bank.Since it is not compulsory that the Next-of-Kin must be a blood relation to the deceased, hence I contacted you to present you to the Bank where the deceased my client had a deposit before his death, be informed that a Next-of-Kin could be anybody, Friends, Church, School or Organization etc. To this effect, I now seek your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next-of-Kin of the deceased (my Client) so that the proceeds of this Benefit valued at US$20, 500, 000.00 (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) can be paid to you as the Next-of-Kin, thereafter you and I can share it; 50% to me, 40% to you, while 10% should be given to any Orphanage Home. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement with the Bank authorities that will protect you and I from any breach of the law.Please get in touch with me via email: talktomalcolm@yahoo.co.uk with the below details immediately you acknowledge the good receipt of this message. Full Name:Full Address:Tel No.:Fax No.:Mobile No.:Private Email:Occupation:Country of Origin:Marital Status:Age:Sex: Your prompt response is highly imperative. Yours sincerely, Bar.Thomas Malcolm (Esq.)
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