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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:
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (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.
  • usmandamaturu1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: usmand7@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:54:18 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20MESSAGE=20PLEASE=20RESPOND=2E?=

Attention please,

I am barrister Usman Damaturu, the personal attoney to late
Mr.Gaski Dairo . I got your contact address from your country
export promotion council although the details of my intention was not made
known to them.I have urgent and very confidential
business proposition for you. On June 6 2001, my client who is an American
oil consultant /contractor with the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),Late Mr. Gaski
Dairo made a numbered time (fixed) deposite for twelve calendar valued at
US$10,500,000.00 Ten Million five hundred thousand
Dollars) in First Bank of Nigeria plc here in Nigeria.

Upon maturity the bank sent a routin notification to my office,
which i responded to them that my client was involved in an auto crash
and lost his life.Sine i am his personal attorney who is holding his legal
powers and all his deposite papers,the bank where this fund is deposited
has mandated me to present his nexk of kin or have this fund confiscated.His
suppose next of kin who is his daughter died along with him in the
auto crash including his wife, consiquentely there is none of his relation
i could find that will claim the fund on his
behalf.

This sum of US$10,500,000.00 is still sitting 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 the Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 6 (six) 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 the next of kin to late Mr. Gaski Dairo it doesnt
matter if you have the same surname with him or not so that the fruits of
this old mans labour will not get into the hands of
some corrupt government officials and remember that this fund can only be
claimed by a help of a foreigner that is the main
reason i am contacting you.As his personal lawyer, i will procure all the
claim documents by your name which will facilitate the release and transfer
of the fund to your nominated bank account.

1. I will like you to provide me immediately with your full names and address,your
direct telephone and fax number, a copy of your international passport or
drivers license so that i
will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits,
which will put you in place as the next of kin.

2. I will also prapare for the drafting and notarization of the
WILL and obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate
/administration in your favour for the transfer.

3. A bank account in any part of the world, which you provide, will then
facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the
beneficiary / next of kin of Mr. Gaski Dairo .

The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the
ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you . There is no risk at all the paperwork
for this transaction will be done by me. Please
observe utmost confidentiality,and rest assured that this transaction would
be most profitable for both
of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your
country.

If you are interested, please reply immediately via my alternative email
addrres (usmandamaturu1@yahoo.com).


God bless you.

Thanks and regards,

Barr. Usman Damaturu Esq.

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