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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.
- This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- 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.
- +447031950853 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
- 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.
- jameskesslerqc01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "James Kessler Qc" <brown_company@aol.co.uk>
Reply-To: Jameskesslerqc1957@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:42:39 +0300
Subject: Good Day
- This mail is in HTML. Some elements may be ommited in plain text. -
Good Day,
I am James Kessler Qc, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr. Allan hereinafter referred to as my client. My client and his immediate family members died in a car in East London on the 5th of November 2011. He was a Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil here in the United Kingdom and Left behind a deposit of Ten Million Million six hundred British Pound Sterling only (10.6million) with a bank. I have written several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of his extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his abandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.
I have professional reasons to use a legal means to present a next of kin of my deceased client. This is legally possible and would be done in accordance with the laws of the land. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similar last name, I contact you, that with your consent, present you to the "Trustee" as my late client's family members as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client. Please get in touch with me by my alternative email (
jameskesslerqc01@yahoo.com
)
Regards.
James Kessler Qc.
Serle Court .
6 New Square Lincoln 's
Inn London UK WC2A 3QS
+447031950853
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