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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "@lawyer.com" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "cotonou" (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.
  • hasslers-associates@lawyer.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: hunt hassler <barr_hassler20@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:25:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: In Attn to : Rudy Van Egdom


HUNT HASSLER & LORENZ LLP. ) Solicitor & Advocate:
Branch office: Rue Roi Dakodonou Carré No 32, Cotonou. West Africa.) E-mail; hasslers-associates@lawyer.com


Attn: Rudy Van Egdom ,


I am Barrister Hunt Hassler.Personal attorney to late Engr.W.A.Egdom ,a foregn national and a construction engineer here in Cotonou Benin .I have the pleasure to contact you on this subject matter.

My late client died along with his entire family while on holiday in Asia Earth Quake Disaster(Phuket Island in Thailand on December 2004. (TSUNAMI DISASTER)

He left the sum of USD$6.5M with a Security Company here and ever since his death,The said security finance Company has issued me to provide his next of kin.I have the pleasure to contact you based on the fact that you bears the same surname with him so that you will stand as his bonafide next of kin and claim this Fund which he left behind.

On hearing from you,I shall give you a compehensive informations of what to do as regards to this.

Barrister Hunt Hassler
Solicitor & Advocate:
Branch office: Rue Roi Dakodonou Carré No 32, Cotonou. West Africa.) E-mail; hasslers-associates@lawyer.com









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