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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:
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +447045736396 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: Willam Cole <willamcole011@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <willamcole1950@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:39:26 +0000
Subject: From Mr. William Cole




Dear Sir, This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it should be treated as such. I am William Cole, a lawyer and solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to my late client, hereinafter referred to as’ my client' who worked as an independent oil merchant in my country Uk before he died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 5th of Nov, 2004. I carried out this search on you and I am contacting you because you bear a similar last name with that of my late client and the further reasons are as follows: Since the death of my client in Nov, 2004, I have written several letters to his embassy with an intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail. However, going by the recent publications by the Trustee bank in which my client deposited the sum of $30.8m Dollars, I fear a likely winding up proceedings in the coming months. I seek your consent therefore, to present you to the trustees as my client's next of kin since you bear a similar last name with him so that you can help repatriates the money to a foreign account and I promise a fair share of 60%-40% in my favor for you at the end of the transfer. If you are very interested, contact me through my email address or call me as soon as possible and I shall appraise you with the full details. I want to assure that I have all the requirements to execute this claim. Like I said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this. Please let me have your opinion as soon as possible and send to me your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further on this transaction. Give me a call at your earliest convenience. Best regards,Willam Cole esq.(Airkam Chambers)+447045736396

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