419 scam: "RICHSON FORTUNE" <droscarhitman.un@gmail.com> WE NEED A TRUSTED AND GOD FEARING PERSON,NT ASAP0PŒë¸"

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
- "necessary legal documents" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "the consignment" (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)
- "consignment " (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)
- "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "chambers" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "god fearing " (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
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.
- o.george29@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "RICHSON FORTUNE" <droscarhitman.un@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:32:47 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: WE NEED A TRUSTED AND GOD FEARING PERSON,

Dear Sir,

My name is Barrister Richson Fortune, an attorney and Business Management
Consultant, based in here London.

Referred to my first proposal to you, we seek your assistant for a
business relationship, on behalf of my client, a highly placed government
official from Comoros Island, my client contacted my office in confident
to seek for a business minded, trust and God fearing person, as his
business associates, in whose name and address contact will be used to
ship the fund deposited with a Clearing/Finance Company in London, to any
agreed place provided a very safe and secured country.

Furtherance to the development on this transaction, all the necessary
legal documents that will be obtain in regards to this transaction from
the Royal High Court of Justice here in London, will be in your name as
the beneficiary to the (fund) consignment, all arrangement for the
delivery of this fund has been perfected and is 100% risk free, as the
security company official will accompany the consignment to your country
/house to avoid doubt.

Therefore, the following conditions will be highly obsevered as regards to
the completion of this transaction.

(1) My Consultancy Fess is 15% of the total amount of $12.5Millions us
Dollars.

(2) Your Percentage is 25%, but 10% will be giving to you in cash while
the rest 15% will be added to the money mapped out for business investment
in your country which you will be part of the executive managers.

(3) My client will send a POWER OF ATTORNEY, AND CERTIFICATE OF THE FUND
DEPOSIT to you, which you will forward to the security company as an
AUTHORITY LETTER, to enable security company to assume you as the business
associate of my client and also release the fund to you.

(4) All Expense In cured at your end as a result of this transaction will
be paid back upon completion of the transaction.

Meanwhile, upon the arrival and the clearance of the consignment in your
country, my clients will send his representative to your country to
witness the delivery of the consignment to you by the security company
officials, and complete the disbursement of the funds to all parties
involved on this transaction, and deposit the balance in any secure bank
in your country. Your full contact details will be needed for the
documentations and procurement of the legal documents with a scan copy of
your identification passport.
We seek your total honesty, trust and above all this transaction must be
treated with utmost confidentiality. and fear of God.

If this proposal is acceptable to you, then get back to me immediately
through my direct personal email o.george29@yahoo.co.uk

We look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

Barrister Richson Fortune( Esq.)
For RICHSON FORTUNE CHAMBERS
Principal Financial Attorney

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