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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • danthompson_07@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: daniel thompson <d_thompson05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <danthompson_07@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:52:22 +0100
Subject: Attn Sir/Madam,Get back to me very urgent...




Daniel Thompson
Manager, Internal Audit/
Foreign Remittance
Dept,
Union Bank Plc,
36 Broad Street,
Victoria Island,
Lagos.


Attn Sir/Madam,

My name is Daniel Thompson. An account
officer to late Mr. Craig Jones who
use to worked for an oil firm in Nigeria. Mr. Craig Jones a
well-known
Philanthropist, before he died, he made a WILL stating that
$15.2M
(Fifteen million, two hundred thousand U.S. dollars only) should
be
donated to any Philanthropist of our choice oversea and your email
was
randomly picked as the beneficiary of the said funds.


We have
made a random draw your e-mail address was picked as the
beneficiary to this
Will. I am particularly interested in securing this
money from the Bank,
because they have issued a notice instructing me
been
the account officer
to produce the beneficiary of this Will within two
weeks or else the money
will be credited to the Government treasury as
per
law here. It is my
utmost desire to execute the WILL of my late client
as
was instructed when
he was a life.


You are required to contact me immediately to start
the process of
sending this money to any of your designated official account
or your
offshore account. I urge you to contact me immediately for
further
details bearing in mind that the Bank has given us a date limit,
Please
act fast.
Please include your phone and fax numbers as you are
replying this mail

through my private email-address danthompson_07@yahoo.com

Congratulation as I await

Yours faithfully,

Daniel Thompson.

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