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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)
• 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.
  • barrjoeachalla@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Achalla Joe <achalla_joebarr202@msn.com>
Reply-To: <barrjoeachalla@sify.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 03:20:10 +0000
Subject: From The Desk of Attorney Achalla Joe Esq.



>From The Desk of Attorney Achalla Joe Esq.E-mail: barrjoeachalla@sify.com

Dear friend,
I am Attorney Achalla Joe an account operator to late (Mr.Fredrick
Wood) a nationality of your country who unfortunately died on the
Terrorist attack in Liverpool London on the dated 7th July 2005. Since
the death of (Mr.Fredrick Wood) I as his account operator have made
several enquiries to locate his relations to come up for the
inheritance claim, without any success. I came across your name and
contact on the course of my personal searching for my lateclient
relations/next of kin so I decided to contact you for this project.

I am contacting you to assist in securing the wealth left behind in a
fixed deposit account by my late client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where my late client operates an
account The board of Directors of the bank has issued and spread a
notice that after 2 months from now and no relation shown up for the
claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared
unserviceable.

Since The board of Directors of the bank have been unsuccessful in
locating my client relatives for sometime now, it's on this note that
I seek your consent to present you as the relation/next of kin to my
late client that the proceed of this deposit can be released into your
account. The amount deposited $7.5 Million Dollars also I believed
With interest($7.500.000.00 USD) I will agree with you on 60% for you
while 40% for me. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach
of the law.

Upon your response, furnish me with:Your full name and addressYour telephone and fax numbersYour occupation and age

As soon as I receive all these information from you I will present it
to the bank Directors that I have locate the relation to my late
client since they asked that I should provide the next of kin for them
to release the inheritance fund. Let me hear from you once you
acknowledge my email(barrjoeachalla@sify.com)
I look forward to your response.

Best Regards.Barrister Joe Achalla.

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