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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • isa_cbnremit@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: marky4real01@canada.com
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:30:19 -1200
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE SOON

FROM THE DESK OF
Auditor ISA BAGUDU
Reply to: isa_cbnremit@yahoo.com

RELOCATION AND PARTNERSHIP,

My Name is Barrister Chamber Mark A.George of the above
address and personal Attorney to one mr.William Tansky a
national of your country now late,an American who
unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on January 31 2000. My
late client was the Chief Executive officer.You may read
more about the crash on visiting this C.N.N News internet
website.

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

My client deposit sum of US$15.5M with the International
Trust bank of Nigeria plc with open beneficiary and No one
will ever come forward to claim this fund since his sudden
death and according to Nigerian banking law the money will
revert to the ownership of the Nigerian government if the
account owner is certified dead and nobody comes forward to
claim it after five years.

So far the bank has just written my chamber a routine
notification to provide the next of kin of my late client
mr.William Tansky or have the account confiscated with! in
the next ten official working days.I would like to appoint
you as the next of kin so that i can procceed.

With forwarding the sum of(US$15.5M)to you for safe keeping
and our sharing on 50% 50 basis. I have all the necessary
legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may
make. All i require is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this deal through. i guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the law.If you can give me yu
telephone number for telecommunication,so that i will call
you and discuss with you private.Thanks

Best Regard,
ABUDDU



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