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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • ogbodujohn35@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: STANDARD TRUST BANK <ogbodujohn30@netscape.net>
Reply-To: ogbodujohn35@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:53:24 +0200
Subject: YOUR BANKING DETAILS!! PLEASE KEEP IT CONFIDENTIAL


From:The Desk of Mr.John Ogbodu
Bill And Exchange Manager-('STB )
( STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC )
Lagos ,Nigeria. West Africa.
Alt/ ogbodujohn35@netscape.net


STRICTLY SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Friend,

Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthy information about your reliability and honesty. Hence I confide in you. I am Mr.John Ogbodu,from ( Standard Trust Bank ),Lagos Nigeria. During the course of our auditing we discovered the sum of fifteen million four hundred thousand united states dollars (USD$15.400.000.00) floating in an account opened in this Bank since 1997 and as from 2001 nobody has operated on this account again, and after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [HEIR]sept 11th 2001 by plane crash, hence the money is floating. After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this account except his wife who was also invovled in the crash, and the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that untill his death he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL] Since our bank,(Standard Trust Bank) got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward 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 and policies but up to date nobody came up to this bank as his next of kin or relative.Since the
country law dose not allow such fund to stay more than five years,

i hereby implore you to act as the the next of kin i will funish you with all the informations when the need arises. For easy communication farward to me thus.
1.Your Full name /adddress .
2.Telephone number.

3. Fax numbers .
It has been resolved that 30% will be for you while 10% has been maped out to defray any expences that might be incured during the process of the ransaction. Then 60% will be for me which shall be release after the funds must have been remitted into your bank account. Email:Reply to this alternative:ogbodujohn35@netscape.net
Hoping for a very successful business relationship with you.

Best Regards,
Mr.John Ogbodu

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