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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: belgore21@interfree.it
Reply-To: begorecharles@yahoo.com
Date: 27 Jan 2007 18:36:59 -0000
Subject: Foreign Operation Unit


Mr Belgore Charles
Head Office Branch
Our Head office Plot 84,
Ajose Adeogun Street
Victoria Island
Lagos, Nigeria


Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of Zenith International Bank PLC, here in Nigeria. In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of us$35 Million Dollars
(Thirty Five Thousand United State Dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich,
Germany) who worked with Shell Oil Development Nigeria and died while
on holiday in Germany with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane
crash.Please check the B.B.C news link below for more information on
his death.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to
thedeceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation
died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody
behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now
decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to
you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't
want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after Seven years, the money will be transferred
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact
that the customer was a foreigner.

I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect for the
provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 60% would be for me. Thereafter, I
will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated. To enable the immediate transfer of this fund
to you arranged.

You must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the
deceased , you will be required to provide for me your full
name ,permanent address and private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication and location where the money will
be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your
notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been
made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately you
receive this letter.Please ensure to keep our transaction strictly
confidential until the fund remittance is complete. Reply to e-mail
below

Yours faithfully,

Mr Belgore Charles
Foreign Operation Unit
Lagos, Nigeria

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