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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "deadline" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (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.

Fraud email example:

From: Barrister Jason Lee <jason_lee204@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <barristerchongleechambers@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:39:28 +1200
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT


Dear Friend,

With warm heart of friendship I contact you in this, hoping that you will give my proposal an urgent attention.

I am Barrister Jason Chong Lee, an attorney at law, a deceased client of mine by name Mr. Harrison, who herein after shall be referred to as my Client, died as the result of a heart-related condition on the 11th November, 2004. His heart condition was due to the death of all the members of his family in the Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 that crashed in a foggy coconut grove in the southern Philippines on April 19, 2000 - 4:25 p.m., as reported on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/718762.stm

My deceased client made some fixed deposit valued (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand) US$5.500, 000.00 Dollars, in a finance firm in Malaysia.Upon maturity legal responsibilities,I have been given deadline mandate by the Bank Management to provide the next of kin and beneficiary to the fund, hence failure to that, the fund will be confiscated and declared unserviceable by the Bank. I have exhaustively made efforts to locate the next of kin/beneficiary, or any relative of my deceased client, which was not successful. My purpose of contacting you is to seek your consent and to present you to the bank as the next of kin/beneficiary of my late client's fund since you have the same last name and country origin.

MODALITIES;
I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall come out successfully. I will prepare you with the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin/beneficiary to the fund interalia that will enable onward transfer to your local account in your country. We are going to adopt a legalized method in the whole matter that will protect you from any infraction of the law. There is a reward for this project and it is a task worth undertaking.

However, if the proposal does not conform with your Ethics please, do accept my sincere apologies. If on the contrary, could you kindly open a correspondence with me, after which I shall furnish you with more information on this operation.

Yours in service,
Barr.Chong Lee
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