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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 us 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT <e_desk2010@live.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:49:52 -0400
Subject: DEAR FRIEND




TO: BENEFICIARY,

I am General Sir Richard Dannatt a British Army Commander and we are the financial investigation unit with the office of the United Nations , EFCC and CIA . We picked up the file of Mrs.Caro Mark a foreigner of your country,who was the Managing Director of Oil Development Company Plc in Nigeria,She died along with her husband and three children in the Niger Delta Crisis.

And I have been given the mandate to contact you as the next of kin by the Secretary General of the United Nations and we have concluded your payment through the Unity Bank Plc. and I want you to contact Rev. Father Kingsley Medua right away through the below information and you are also asked to stop any further communication with whosoever including your partner because we are undergoing an investigation and if anybody is found guilty or having hands in extorting money from you we will arrest him and hand him over to the Funds Investigation Unit.

Contacts the Financial Secretary to the Presidency in Nigeria: Rev. Father Kingsley Medua to enable him start the process of releasing your payment amount of $6 Million US Dollars from the bank. Do as direct to receive your payment:-
Rev.Father's Email: rev.kingsleymedua@live.com


GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT.
BRITISH ARMY COMMANDER:

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