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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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.
  • will_ron12@yahoo.ie (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Wilson Ron" <wilron06@viking.fr>
Reply-To: will_ron12@yahoo.ie
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:41:29 +0200
Subject: The Branch Manager with Bank of the North.



Dr. Wilson Ron

Bank Of The North,

Victoria Island Branch,

Lagos, Nigeria.

Reply Email: will_ron12@yahoo.ie

 

 

Attn:

I am Dr.Wilson Ron, Branch Manager with Bank of the North, Victoria
Island Branch, Lagos, Nigeria. I have an urgent and very profitable
business proposition for you thatshould be handled with extreme
confidentiality. On January 6,1999 a Foreign Oil Consultant and
contractor with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Mr.James Herbert by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve
calendar months valued at US$38.6M (Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred
United States Dollars Only) in my branch.

 

Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the
Bank policy to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month
we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract
employers the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) that Mr.
James Herbert died from an automobile accident.

 

On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a
Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I
therefore made further investigations and discovered that Mr. James
Herbert did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his
official documents including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

 

This sum of US$15.5M has been carefully moved out of my bank to a
Security Company in Europe for safekeeping. No one will ever come
forward to claim it and according to Nigerian Law, at the expiration
of 8 years the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian
Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. This prompted us to
contact you.

 

We will like to front you as the next of kin of our late client
thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $15.5 million
U.S Dollars that is presently in a SecurityCompany in Europe. I
contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own or
operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim
the money in the Security Company in Europe.

 

We have unanimously agreed that 30% of the entire sum would be for you
if you agree to take part in this profitable transaction,65% for me
and 2 of my colleagues while the remaining 5% would be used to pay
back the expenses that may be incurred during the course of the
transaction by both parties after the fund has been claimed and lodged
in your account. In the event that you are genuinely interested in the
transaction,the following information would be needed from you to
expedite action.

 

1) Your Full Name and Address that would be used to establish you as
the next of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal
beneficiary of the fund. This would ensure that the Security Company
in Europe will releases the Consignment/Fund to you.

 

2) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be
reached at all time because this transaction entails constant
communication.

 

The transaction is 100% risk free as all modalities has been perfected
to ensure the hitch free success of the transaction. If you are
interested, send the requested information via email so that we can
proceed.

 

I await your response urgently.

 

Regards,

Dr. Wilson Ron

Branch Manager.

Reply Email: will_ron12@yahoo.ie

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