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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:
  • "transfer into your account" (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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "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.
  • rev_mathewmorgan2@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3arev_mathewmorgan2@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "mathewmorgan02 Gazeta.pl" <mathewmorgan02@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 16:01:12 +0100
Subject: STRICTEST CONFIDENCE AND URGENCY


Nigeria LNG Limited,
C & C Towers, Plot 1684 Sanusi Fafunwa Street,
Victoria Island, P.M.B. 12774 (Marina),
Lagos, Nigeria
please, contact me through my private e-mail
address:rev_mathewmorgan2@yahoo.co.uk<address%3Arev_mathewmorgan2@yahoo.co.uk>

ATTN:

RE: TRANSFER OF US$35,500,000,00 (THIRTY-FIVE MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) TO SAFE ACCOUNT.

I wish to intimate you with this proposal in my Capacity as an
Accountant and in full agreement With the Auditor-General of this
Company (Nigeria Liquidfied Natural Gas).
We scrutinized all records and the accounts of Awarded and executed
contracts of this company (NLNG) during the previous military regime,
since The inception of democracy in Nigeria and carefully Uncover and
mapped out a whopping sum US$35.5M which We want to transfer into your
account as the sole Beneficiary.

It might interest you to know that beginning of this current civilian
government of President Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua at a Working asses
capital of US$3 billion and will Definitely gulp more USD2billion on
the completion of the fifty part.You can authentically apply for
supply if it interest you to be our client with full guarantee from
me. The money $35.5M has been approved for payment by this company
NLNG, the Federal Ministry of Finance (endorsed by the Accountant
General of the Federation) and to be paid by the Apex Bank of Nigeria
under contract,No G/FGN/FMF/CBN/B2517/99.

As top civil servants, we are not authorized to operate foreign bank
accounts hence our decision to use your account in full trust and
confidence to transfer this money outside Nigeria. We have accepted
you as our foreign partner sum(US$35.5M (THIRTY-FIVE MILLION, FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY).

Moreover, it is pertinent to note that it is not risky and does not
require much engagement since we have taken care of the deal in full
capacity.

We have resolved to give you 30% of the total for your assistance.
If you are interested in this deal, please, contact me through my
e-mail address: rev_mathewmorgan2@yahoo.co.uk for more lively
information.

Remember to give me your phone line, fax, age, occupation and position
through which I can send you the approved documents for your perusal.
I am anxiously waiting for your response with hope that you will
understand the confidential nature of this transaction.
Best regards,

Rev.Mathew Morgan
An Accountant (NLNG)

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