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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "IBRAHIM HASSAN" <ibruhassan1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ibru_hassan@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:26:08 +0000
Subject: CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY.

My Dear,

I am highly compelled upon strict recommendation ,to write you this Very
urgent and confidential letter.I am Mr Ibrahim Hassan, Currently, the Chief
Credit Officer with the Intercontinental Bank Nigeria Plc.

I was the account manager to Late Mr.Michael James ,in the year 1997-2000,
He is aNation al of France,who used to work with Shell Development Company
in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 2002 it was reported to us that the Late
Mr.Michael James, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a car
accident along Ibadan Express Road, Nigeria. Unfortunately,all occupants of
the vehicle lost their lives.

Since then we have looked forward in our Bank to receiving a requisition
letter to transfer his estate to his next of kin,which until now we have not
received. I now took it upon myself as a responsibility to make sure the
funds are transferred to his next of kin which still has proved unsuccessful
even after several enquiries to the embassy of France here in Nigeria to
locate any of Late Mr. Michael James ,extended relatives.After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I had to get an alternative hence I contacted you for
our own benefits. All I want you to do is to assist in repatriating the fund
valued at US$35 million (thirty FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
deposited here in our bank (Intercontinental Bank Nigeria Plc.) before it
gets confiscated or declared unserviceable.

For the fact that I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives of
Mr.Michael James, seek your utmost assistance to repatriate these Funds
into your safe hands, while we will work out in honesty an agreeable sharing
ratio that would mutually benefit both of us.On this concept, you have to
bear in mind that the procedures to retrieving these Funds are Legal and
would not in any manner infringe on your Individual rights.

If you are interested you should contact me through my email address.Kindly
keep this information to yourself, as I expect your most wellcomed response.

Best Regards,
Mr Ibrahim Hassan

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