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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:
  • "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.)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +2347082999226
• 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.
  • williamszwabo80@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3awilliamszwabo80@sify.com

Fraud email example:

From: "williams what is your pet name" <williamszwabo501@mailbox.hu>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 02:16:46 +0100
Subject: Can You Act As The Next Of Kin. reply williamszwabo80@sify.com


I am Barr.Williams Zwabo, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to
late Mr.Chapman the African Area Director of SIL International,who
unfortunately died in the crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan,
Ivory Coast, January 30 2000.
Since the death of Chapman, I has 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 Eco Bank Plc where my client operates an account
worth $USD7.5 Million Dollars. The board of Eco Bank Plc 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 relatives
for 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 lateclient:

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 this transaction
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 Eco
Bank Plc.Further details awaits your response by email.

PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

Regards,

Barr. Williams Zwabo

EMAIL:williamszwabo80@sify.com <EMAIL%3Awilliamszwabo80@sify.com>
Call me +2347082999226

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