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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • atmk01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Prince M Anthony <pmarkanthony@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: atmk01@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:44:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: You have a message!


Dear Sir/Madam,

Compliments of the day, I am Mr. Anthony Mark, a banker writing in respect of my Late customer who died in a plane crash some years ago, his name is Andreas Schranner. Before his death, he made a fund deposit of $7M with my bank(Union Bank Nig. Plc.) In recent time, the management of my Bank want to confiscate the account since the account has been domant for many years without any of his extended family coming up to make the claim of this fund, hence I contact you being a foreigner to stand in as his relative to avoid the bank confiscating this account into the bank's treasury account.

As soon as you reply positively, I shall then furnish you with the necessary details that you
need to know about this fund and Andreas Schranner himself. However, you can also get more details on this site; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Regards,

Mr. Anthony Mark
atmk01@yahoo.co.uk


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