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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • olaoshodi@excite.com

Fraud email example:

From: "ola oshodi" <olaoshodi1@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:14:33 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Sir,

I am Mr.Ola Oshodi, A staff of Fidelity Bank Plc.I am
writing you following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of
immense benefit to both of us.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
USD5million(Five Million United States Dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31
2000, including his wife Thelma, and his only daughter
Sheryl, while returning from a vacation in Mexico. You
shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and

http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html

Since we got the information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being
his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving
nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is
therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make business with you
and release the money to you as the beneficiary of the funds
for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and I don't want this money to go back into Government treasury
as unclaimed bill.

You will be entitled to 30% of this money as foreign
partner, while 70% will be for me. I will visit your country for the
disbursement according to the percentages indicated above
once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to
me and trust is our watchword in this transaction. Please
note,that this business is 100% safe and risk free and I
hope that the fund arrives your account in latest 10
working days from the date of the receipt of the following
information:

1. Your name and adderss
2. Bank name
3. Bank address
4. Account numbers
5. Private Telephone numbers for easy communication.

The above information will enable me to apply for payment
into your account. I am looking forward to doing business
with you.
You can reply me back in my alternative mail Box:olaoshodi@excite.com


Trusting to hear from you soonest.

Best regards
Mr.Ola Oshodi.
Tel:â-803-3528864.


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