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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)
  • "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.
  • caughtgoin180@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Bob Yancoskie <caughtgoin180@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:56:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Nigerian Scam


Hello Mr. Wein,

I am Robert Yancoskie, 18 years old and I recently recieved this e-mail, from Nigeria, telling me a relative with a large sum of money has died and i am entitled to a large percent. I was sketchy at first so i looked up this "David Yancoskie", who is very much alive. I then looked up scams and discovered the Nigerian or 4-1-9 scam. Please read the e-mail below and tell me what i can do to prevent more e-mails like this. I don't even know how they got my e-mail adress. Also i don't know how to use e-mail tracers or headers, so any information on that would be helpful. Please e-mail back to caughtgoin180@yahoo.com. Thank you for your time.


>From the desk of: Mr.Daniel Orezi Citizen International Bank (CIB) 11 B Akin Adesola Street Victoria Island. Lagos Nigeria. Hello Yancoskie, I am Mr.Daniel Orezi,Branch Manager with CITIZENS INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC (C.I.B) I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of ($25.5million u.s. dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Engineer David Yancoskie who died in the Ikeja bomb blast of the January 27, 2002 my client, his wife, and their two children were involved in Ikeja bomb blast unfortunately they lost their lives in the process of the bomb blast. Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither theirfamily member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered his maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund. We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 30 % for you as foreign partner, 65 % for us the officials in my department and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses incurred during the course of this business. Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country for our share. It is from our 65 % we intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To
commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone number, fax number full name and address to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made. Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature. I look forward to receiving your prompt response. Mr.Daniel Orezi(C.I.B) For confirmation, please refer to the links below: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/worald/africa/2698081.stm http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html




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