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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:
  • "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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • petwart2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Peter Stewart <petwart2@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: petwart1@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:35:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: INIVITATION TO ACT AS NEXT OF KIN


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: petwart2@yahoo.com

Good day,



Calvary greetings to you and your family. I hope you are in a perfect condition of health ?

Greetings to you from Nigeria,I am Mr.Peter Stewart,I am the chief Auditor of Fidelity Bank Of Nigeria,Plc. One of the leading Banks in Nigeria today.

I wish to introduce to you a confident transactional business between just you and I.

We want to transfer to overseas account the sum of n($2,300,000USD) Two Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars,from our Bank here in Nigeria,We need someone that we can confide in and someone who has an existing bank account,whatever type of account,either filled up or empty,anyone can do,as long as will remain honest to me till the end of this important business,I want to put my trust in you and believe that you will not let me down.

During the course of our auditing lastweek,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in the year 2001 and since then,nobody as being operating on this account,after going through some old files,I disscovered that the owner of this account died without a [Heir/Will] Hence,the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently,it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Late Mr. TONY CHAOTE, an American and great Industrialist,a resident of Visalia,California,who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261,which crashed,including his only daugther,so,nobody to claim the money except he has a Next Of Kin,further investigations revealed to me that he has lost his wife since 1996 after a serious illness,so the only person who can claim the money now is the Next Of Kin who must be a foreigner and I want that person to be you by collecting your details and making some paper works,and it i!
s done,if you make a positive response to this proposal,we are talking of nothing more than two-three weeks transaction here,because I have gone a little further to simplify the transaction.

You can read more news about the plane crash on visiting this sites,

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

and http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp.

No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it,the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the account is a secret account. The total amount involved here is Six.Five million United States Dollars.

Now,the money has to be tranfered to a foreigner,and I dont know any foreigner,I am just contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here,but a foreigner who has informations about the account,which I shall give you upon your positive response.

You are the first and the only person I am contacting for this business,so please reply urgently,so that I inform you about the next steps to take.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both you and I from any breach of the law. I will make sure that the bank officials in-charge destroys all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no traces to any place. I will transfer the money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign departments.

I look forward to your earliest reply.

(N.B) PLEASE,TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS A TOP SECRET.





Thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Peter Stewart



- Peter Stewart

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