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

Fraud email example:

From: "adeniran"<adeolutayo@myway.com>
Reply-To: adeeolutayo@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:14:41 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Estate of P.keizer


I am Mr. Olutayo Aderinokun Managing Director Guaranty Trust Bank Plc. I got your contact via my private search and decided after going through your intact profile to ask for your personal involvement because of the volume of your reserved nature.“A Foreigner, Late Mr. Peter keizer an Expatriate engineer, who was involved in oil contract with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until His death over two years ago in a ghastly car accident, banked with us here and a closing balance as at the end of March, 2004 of USD 28.2 Million (twenty eight million, two hundred thousand dollars) equivalent in the local currency, which the bank now expects a next in kin to claim as beneficiary but all efforts by this bank to contact any of his relatives proved unsuccessful. As a result of this, the Board of Directors are about to place the as "UNCLAIMAMBLE" and it shall be decided that this fund will be withdrawn from our Bank here into the Central Bank as excess!”In order to prevent this, I
now seek your assured assistance to have you stand in as the beneficiary's next in kin as all documents to enable you claim this fund will be carefully worked out on your names without breaking any international monetary laws. So if you agree, 35% of the total fund when remitted would be your share, 10% would stand as incidental expenses while the remaining 55% would be my share, but more details would follow with time.Kindly contact me through my private E-mail address adeeolutayo@yahoo.com and forward to me your telephone and fax numbers for easy communications, if this is acceptable to you. Yours Faithfully,Mr. Olutayo Aderinokun B.Sc. (GTB) (Please feel free to question my reputation in the Bank, but keep the transaction off for security reasons.)

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