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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)
  • "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 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.
  • barr.mohamed@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "br_jasper02 Gazeta.pl" <br_jasper02@gazeta.pl>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:35:24 +0200
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY


From Barrister Mohamed Jasper,

I am Mohamed Jasper an attorney to Mr. Christopher Awillo Gombe, a

Concorde plane passenger.He is a property magnate who was based in

Spain, Also referred to as my client. On the 25th of July 2000, my

client, his wife and their two Children died in the Air France concord

plane crash bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Since then I have

been managing his properties here in the Cote d'Ivoire. And some of

his properties, I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the

money and property left behind by my client before they get

confiscated or declared unserviceable by his bank. Particularly, the

bank has issued me a notice to provide any of his next of kin or have

the account confiscated within a short time. My late client has an

account valued at 4.1 million dollars.

I now seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the

deceased.

Please call me for detail discussion or reply to my email,
Email: barr.mohamed@hotmail.fr

And send me your full details.

Regards,

Barr Mohamed Jasper.
Tel: + 225 05 97 70 86

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