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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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "accredited attorney" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.

Fraud email example:

From: "Andrew Mazi" <andrewmazi2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:23:46 +0200
Subject: Please reply as fast as you can.


* *From Barrister Andrew Mazi ( Esq) Senior Partner.
* **Mazi Chambers.
Member Ecowas Council of Accredited Attorneys.
First Floor Left Wing.
**202 Rue de Kara,
Lome-Togo.*


*Dear Friend ,

I am Andrew Mazi Personal attorney to late Engr E.P.Mark,a foreign national
and a construction engineer here in Lome-Togo.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$11,5000,00) Eleven Million five Hundred
Thousand Dollars with a bank here and ever since his death,the bank has
asked me to provide his next of kin.

I have the pleasure to contact you based on the fact that you a foreigner
like him, so that you will stand as his bonafide next of kin and claim this
money which he left behind. We are not allowed to operate foreign currency
accounts here.

Please, provide me the following answers :

* *1. Full Name
*
*2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number
*
*3. Your Contact Address.
*
*4. Can you handle this project?
*
*5. Can I give you this trust?
*
*6. What will be your commission? If you can sponsor this transfer.

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

Barr Andrew Mazi (Esq) *

Anti-fraud resources:

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