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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • iykeonaka@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Chief Emaka Anyaoku. <emeka_anyaoku55@sify.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:55:13 +0100
Subject: PROJECT COMPELETED.


PLEASE ACCEPT THIS MY DEAR FRIEND.

WITH INTEREST TRANSFERED SUCCESSFULY.
I wish to inform you that I concluded the Transaction successfully
with a LONDON lady since i
gathered fact from genuine source that you never concluded with the
UNIT that i advised you to
contact. I will want you to know that I contacted this lady with the
help of some one very
important. . And I am currently residing in London with my family. I
want to inform you that I
would like to compensate you with the sum of US$1,800,000.00 for your
efforts in trying to
assist the person you were dealing with previously but not knowing
that i was the proprietor of
the entire deal. If you know how to contact his family, please let me
have his information so
that I can compensate them with $1,000,000.00.

as the transaction it did not work out between us even while they
tried to be greedy in keeping
me aside, so kindly accept it. Even when i asked you to contact
agency but you fail to comply
with them. I dropped the (cheque in bank draft) with my personal
Secretary by name IYKE ONAKA. I
did this out of sympathy for your efforts and contribution so far. I
hope you will be satisfied
afterall, despite the fact that they did not believe me to have
completed the transaction with
my ideas. But i am out and not coming bank to Nigeria.

I advise you to contact him immediately through e-mail address:
(iykeonaka@hotmail.com)
For the delivery of the bank draft to you. Because as soon as i
conclude arrangement i will be
sending him some money so he can meet with me in London as i am
traveling this evening out of
UK. Please do not ask me for contacts or even communicate me further
except for an appreciation
or the information’s I asked for as I am been compiled by my wife
to make sure that all parties
should benefit from the transaction. .

He is my P.A and my inside person at the CBN audit verification unit
which is presently working
with the union bank plc. .

I hope you will have a nice life with my token of compensation for
your efforts and God bless
you.
Regards

Chief Emaka Anyaoku
Director General (Retired).

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