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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • nelson_donellng31@yahoo.com.mx

Fraud email example:

From: "Nelson donell" <nelson_donell02@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: nelson_donell44@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:18:55 +0000
Subject: Re:Dear Friend

Dear Friend,

I Am Mr.Nelson Donell the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the
Foreign Remittance Department Of The Cometh International Bank Plc,
Lagos Branch. I got your contact from the world trade center (WTC)
Regional office in Lagos, Nigeria. Although the details of my
intention was not made known to them. Actually,I have avery urgent &
confidential Business Proposition for you & for our overall mutual
interest.

On the 6th of March 2001, our Customer, a Mexican
National,late Engr. Carlos Montoya, an Oil Merchant / Contractor with
the Federal Government of Nigeria, deposited ,a valued amount of
US$25Million in my branch.Upon maturity,i sent a routine notification
to his forwarded address but got no reply.After a month we sent a
reminder,& finally we discovered from his contract employers NNPC,
that late Engr. Carlos Montoya until his death Four years ago in a
ghastly terrorist attack to American Airlines Flight 11, from
Boston,Massachusetts,to Los Angeles, California,crashed into the North
Tower of the World Trade Centre (WTC) with 86 people on board.
All occupants of the Aero plane unfortunately lost their lives. On further
investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all
attempts to trace his Next of kin were fruitless.I therefore made
further investigation and discovered that late Engr.Carlos Montoya did
not declare any Next okin in all his official documents,including his
bank deposit paperwork.

This sum US$25Million is still floating in the bank and the
interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each
year. No one will come forward to claim it.According to
NigerianLaws, at the expiration of 7 years,the money will revert to the
Ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the
funds.Consequently, my proposal is that i will like you as a
foreigner to stand in as a Next of kin of late Engr.Carlos Montoya.This
is simple.All I require is your honest and co-operation to enable us
see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under
alegitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law. I will want you to send to me on your return email the following
information for the transfer in your favor.
1. Your full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your private phone and fax numbers we will be
communicating to each other and as soon as I received I will definitely
call you.
Let's consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated
Thus;
1. I as the Originator of the Fund will take 60% of the
transferable Fund.
2. You as the Manager of the Fund will take 40% of the
transferable Fund.
Most importantly, CONFIDENTAILITY as what I saw as the life
wire to the success of the transfer of this Fund must have to be
emulated between you and me. You have to use this media to promise me
that you will not in anyway expose the content of this transaction to
anybody be it your Friends, Colleagues and Co-Workers to enumerate a
fee. With the act of emulating CONFIDENTIALITY I tell you that the sky
will be our limit as soon as this Fund is transferred in our favor
as you the Beneficiary of the Fund.I will also want you to send your
reply to this email (nelson_donellng31@yahoo.com.mx) as soon as you get
this mail to enable us discuss on the modalities and processes
for success of this transaction.Thanks for your anticipated cooperation
and understanding.

I wait for your kind response. Remain blessed.
Mr.Nelson Donell.

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