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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:
  • "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "lagos" (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.
  • 2347025393883
• 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.
  • mac_chambers3@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?MACLORD_UBAH?=" <ubah.maclord@aliceadsl.fr>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:08:46 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?In_search_of_next_of_kin_.?=


Maclord Chambers
Plot 205 Marina Way,
Victoria Island ,
Lagos-Nigeria
Phone:234-7025-393-883
Email :mac_chambers3@yahoo.co.uk



Compliment of the day.


I got your contact in course of my inquiry to locate relations of my Deceasesd Client ,who died in a car crash on the 13th February 2004.The reason for this is to inherit a Contracts Payment Deposits Account of $15.5 million of which the Deceased left in a Finance Firm.


Consequently, having gone through to your profile on Internet, I want you to please assist me to inherit the fund into your Account. This request emerged last week when the Finance Firm contacted me for the attention of my Deceases Client (perhaps for one reason or the other they have tried to contact him and was unsuccessful).


However, thereupon I announced his death and protocols observed, I was mandated (as the deceased's attorney)to provide the Next of Kin to inherit the Deposits or they will freeze it as"Unclaimed Deposit".Unfortunately, and unknown to the Finance Firm, the Next of Kin was among the dead in the car crash.


But rather leaving the Deposits/Account frozen hence I seek your help to claim the fund into your Account as you share same names with the Next of Kin and I have the required Information to execute the transaction under legal process.


Please contact me for further information and commencement of the transaction,and I need your full mailing address,your direct telephone number/Fax number,for this transaction to commence successfully.


Be informed that your compensation will be 40% of this fund,while 60% will be my share.Please it is only trust and honesty to ourself will make this claim to work out accordingly,and success will be our achievement at the end of this transaction.



Please get in touch with me by my email address :(mac_chambers3@yahoo.co.uk) For the successful transaction,


Yours faithfully,
Maclord Ubah Esq.


---------------------- ALICE N°1 de la RELATION CLIENT 2008*--------------------
Découvrez vite l'offre exclusive ALICE BOX! En cliquant ici http://abonnement.aliceadsl.fr Offre soumise à conditions.*Source : TNS SOFRES / BEARING POINT. Secteur Fournisseur d.Accès Internet

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