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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)
  • "million us 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348055437387 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • jack_weis0@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "jweis" <jweis@terra.com.mx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:21:49 -0600
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE


ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT
STANDARD TRUST BANK NIGERIAL PLC
PLOT 2,AJOSE ADEOGUN STREET
VICTORIA-ISLAND LAGOS-NIGERIA
TEL: +234-8055437387
Email:jack_weis0@yahoo.ca
my Dear jed

Re: Transfer of [$19,000,000.nineteen million US
dollars We want to transfer to overseas {$19,000,000] nineteen
Million United States dollars from Standard Trust Bank
Nig Plc.I would like, if you will be capable and fit
to Provide either an existing Bank account or to set
up a new Bank account immediately to receive this
money, even an Empty account can serve to receive this
money, as long As you will remain honest to me till
the end of this
Important business transaction.

I want to believe that you will never let me down
either Now or in future. I am Mr.jack weis
Director of Accounts Department of Standard Trust
BankNig Plc, during the course Of our auditing I
discovered a floating fund in an account Opened with
our Bank in 2001 and since 2003 nobody has
Operated on this account again, after going through
some old Files in the records I discovered that the
owner of the Account died without a heir 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 was a National of your
countr and an Industrialist, he died since 2002 and no
other person knows about this account or anything
Concerning it, the account has no beneficiary and my
Investigation proved to me as well that Until his
death was a Manager with an oil firm in Nigeria.
I am contacting you as a foreigner because this Money
can only be approved to a foreigner with a Foreign
account because the Money is in us dollars and the
former owner of the account
is a foreigner I am revealing all this to you with
the belief that You will never let me down in this
business, you are The first and the only person I am
contacting for the Business so Please reply urgently
for me to tell you The next Step to take.

You should forward your telephone/fax numbers and your
Residential address, which is also needed. You will
have To give me the assurance when we meet that this
money Will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your Country for sharing and disbursement of the fund
which Will be 35% for your assistance, 60% will be for
us while 5% will be set aside to take care of all the
Expenses that will be incurred by both parties during
the course of the transfer.

I look forward to your earliest response, note you can
also Call me on my private number below:[+234-8055437387
For security reasons.pls mail me here E-mail:jack_weis0@yahoo.ca

Yours faithfully,

Mr.jack weis.

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