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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)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "a reliable and reputable person to handle this" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • peterphilip11@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "PETER PHILLIP" <nigplcphilipeter3311@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: peterphilip11@yahoo.dk
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:10:49 -0400
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED

MR.PETER PHILLIP
ACCOUNTANT,UBN
LAGOS - NIGERIA
EMAIL:peterphilip11@yahoo.dk
TEL/FAX: 234-9-2721973

Dear Friend,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction,
this is by virtue if its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP
SECRET. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make
anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well
at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of
this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of your discreteness and
ability in transactions of this nature.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you.
I am MR. PETER PHILLIP an Accountant with the Union Bank of Nigeria
Plc. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and
Reputable person to handle this confidential transaction, which
involves thetransfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account
requiring maximumconfidence.

THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner Late Engineer Thomas Brown a native of your country was
a Pipeline Engineer with the Federal Government, until his death five
years ago in a pipeline Fire Incidents in warri, banked with us here at
Union Bank Plc. Lagos, and had a closing balance of US$13.5M (Thirteen
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now
unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any available foreign next-of-kin
of the Late beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust
fund for arms and Ammunition at a military war college herein Nigeria.

Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank to get in
touch with any of the Late Engr. Thomas Brown family or relatives
but proved to avail. It is because of the perceived possibility of not being
able to locate any of Late Engr. Thomas Brown 's next-of-kin (he had no
known wife and children) that the management under the
influence of our chairman and member of the board of rectors, retired Major
General Aku W.Aku, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared
"UNCLAIMABLE"and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and
Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in
general.

In order to avert this negative development, so of my trusted
colleagues and I now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next-of-kin to Late Engr.Thomas Brown so that the funds US$13.5M
would be released and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary
next-of-kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be
carefully worked out and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk free
involvement.

Your share stays while the rest would be for my colleagues for and
myself Investment purposes in your country. We have agreed that, the
funds will be shared thus, after it has been transferred into your
account 1. 30% of the money will go to you for acting as the
beneficiary of the funds. 2. 10% will be set aside for reimbursement to both
parties for any incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of
the transfer. 3. 60% to us the originators of the transaction.

If this proposal is acceptable by you and you do not wish to take undue
advantage of the trust, we hope to bestow on you and your company, then
kindly get to me immediately via my private
Email:peterphilip11@yahoo.dk for security reason. Furnishing me
with your most confidential telephone, fax number and exclusive bank
particulars so that I can use this information to apply for the releaseand
subsequent transfer of the funds in your favor
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

MR.PETER PHILLIP

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