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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)
  • "million 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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • tonyfage001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: tony fage <tonyfage0039@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <tonyfage26@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:34:13 +0100
Subject: Robert Chapman




FROM THE DESK OF:BARRISTER TONY FAGE,TONY FAGE AND ASSOCIATES.(BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS-AT-LAW)NO: 287 ABOYADE COLE STREET,VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS-NIGERIAEMAIL:tonyfage001@yahoo.com

ATTN: Friend:

I am Barr.Tony Fage, a solicitor at law. I am the personalattorney to late Mr. Robert Chapman the African Area Director of SIL International,Whodied along with his entire family on Monday,31 July, 2000 in a plane crashin paris.You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm"

Also in this website,you will see where they talk about the paris plane crash you shall find the pictures of the accident,Mr Robert Chapman from United States Of America.Since the death of Chapman, I as his personal attorney, have made several enquiries to locate his only surviving relation, without any success I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for Chapman's relations, so I decided to contact you for this project to know if you are the Next Of Kin to Late Chapman and his family.

I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by Chapman, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where my client operates an account worth $USD7.5 Million Dollars. The board of Directors the Bank has issued me a notice that after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable.

Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating Chapman's relativesfor sometime now,it on this note that I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner,so that the proceed of this deposit valued at $USD7.5 Million Dollars can be released to you for our disbursments. Upon the receipt of the following,i will make sure i submit them to the Central Computing Unit of the Bank as the Next Of Kin to my late client:

1.Your Full Name as stated in your international passport.2. Your residence address, age and occupation.3. Your Cell Phone and Fax Numbers for easier communication.

I have worked out the modalities for the prosecution of thistransaction which has met all necessary requirements in our country and those of international arbitration.

All i require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this business successfully.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law.Chapman was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of the Bank. Further details awaits your response by email:tonyfage001@yahoo.com
PLEASE,TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

Regards,

Barr.Tony Fage (Esq.)

NOTE:I HAVE GIVEN THE SAME INFORMATIONS TO MY COLLEAGUES IN MY CHAMBERSANOUTSIDE THE CHAMERS TO HELP ME GET SOMEONE TO HELP ME,BUT THEY ARE USINGIT TO DEFRAUD PEOPLE.BE CAREFULL WHO CONTACT YOU AND MAKE SURE YOU GET BACKTO ME AND SEND ALL INFORMATION GIVEN TO YOU BY THESE IMPOSTORS.
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