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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "million united states 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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • doctorpaul2006@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Paul Osagie" <investmentfunds7@msn.com>
Reply-To: drpaulosagie1@myway.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:56:58 +0000
Subject: FROM: DR PAUL .

FROM: DR PAUL OSAGIE.
BILLS & EXCHANGE MANAGER
FIRST NATIONAL BUILDING SOCIETY
23 CREEK ROAD APAPA LAGOS.



Sir;

PRIVATE AND URGENT.

I am contacting you in regards to a business
transferof a huge sum of money from a deceased account.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will
make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day.
We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction.

PROPOSITION; We discovered an abandoned sum of
(Twenty Million United states Dollars) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died
along with his entire family.

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations
has come forward to lay claims to this money as the
heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery,
we now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next of kin to the deceased as all documentations
will be carefully worked out by us for the funds
(Twenty Million United states Dollars) to be released
in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.

It may interest you to note that we have secured
from the probate an order of madamus to locate any
of deceased beneficiaries.
Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance
of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing
me with the following;

1. Your Full Names and Address.
2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file a letter of
claim to the appropriate departments for necessary
approvals in your favour before the transfer can
be made.
We shall be compensating you with 3 Million Dollars
on final conclusion of this project, while the rest
shall be for us. Your share stays with you
while the rest shall be for us for investment
purposes in your country.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take
undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you,
I await your urgent email.

PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: doctorpaul2006@yahoo.com.hk

Regards,
DR PAUL OSAGIE

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