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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "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.
• 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.
  • +2347028453164
• 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.
  • barristersanusinewton2008@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sanusi Newton" <barrsanusi@beehive.org>
Reply-To: barristersanusinewton2008@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:15:02 +0100
Subject: NEWS?


FROM THE DESK OF:BARRISTER SANUSI NEWTON.
SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SAN).
DIRECTOR,INFORMATIONS PROTOCOL
NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLUEM COMPANY
KM5,GARKI WAY,ABUJA,NIGERIA.
Tell:+2347028453164.
Email: barristersanusinewton2008@gmail.com

Attn: Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Sanusi Newton, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney
to late Mr. George Brumley the African Area Director who was a consultant
with Shell-development,who unfortunately was involved in the plane crash in
Nairobi Kenya Airways Flight 431 in 16,355-foot Lenana Peak on Mount
Kenya,Monday July 21 2003 you will read more stories about the crash on
visiting this website,
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html and also
in this website,where Brumley's company talked about his death in the Kenya
crash. Mr.George Brumley Hailed from Hamilton, Ontario Canada.

Since the death of George Brumley, 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 George Brumley's relations,so I decided to contact you for
this project.

I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left
behind in a fixed deposit account by George Brumley,before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by World Bank Of Switzerland where my
client operates an account worth $USD45 Million Dollars. The board of World
Bank Of Switzerland 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 George Brumley'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 $USD45 Million Dollars can be
released to you for our disbursments.

I and my team have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum,Upon successful
remittance of funds into your bank account,5% has been set aside to cover
all expenses incurred both local and international, during the course of
this transfer,while 70% will be for me and my team all requires is your
honest cooperation to enable us see this business successful.I guarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect
you from any breach of the law.

George Brumley 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 World Bank Of
Switzerland. Further details awaits your response by email.PLEASE, TREAT
THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.Do not hesitate to include the following:
your private phone and fax number...
your residnece address....
your occupation...
your age..
your full name...

when replying this proposal,you can also email me on this alternative email:
barristersanusinewton2008@gmail.com or call me on +2347028453164 for more
details.

Yours faithfully,
Barr. Sanusi Newton. (Esq).
Call Me +2347028453164.
REPLY TO: barristersanusinewton2008@gmail.com
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

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