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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • ",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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  
• 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.
  • eweleeguatu1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Ewele Eguatu <zm923svcsq@testzimbra.com>
Reply-To: "eweleeguatu1@gmail.com" <eweleeguatu1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From: Mr. Ewele Eguatu


From: Mr. Ewele Eguatu
Manager,Audit/Account Section
Ocenic Bank of Nigeria

Dear Friend,

How are you today? Hope all is well. Please be informed that
I have decided to contact you for a fund transfer
transaction worth the sum of US$10,500,000.00 into your
reliable bank account as the sole NEXT-OF-KIN to the foreign
deceased customer of our bank (an International Billionaire
French Businessman) who was killed with his entire family by
PLANE-CRASH in Central England almost 5 years ago. Since his
death occured, no body have show up as his next of kin for
the claim because the account is untraceable.

Upon the investigation I carried out from his records, I
found out that his foreign business consultant who would
have trace the account died earlier before the deceased.
Therefore, this is a confidential and sealed deal.

For the success of this transaction, you should apply and
act as the only existing NEXT-OF-KIN to the deceased which
our bank will replace the deceased account information
through proper documentation in position of your own account.

This transaction is risk-free, it will never harm your good
reputation in your society because no one can trace the
account, and on the instant of the transfer of the fund into
your account, the chapter of this transaction will be closed
entirely.

Note that in a business of this nature, the bank don`t want
to know your difference between the deceased country,
religion or believe because our bank inheritance law is
against that. So, it is a preference for us achieve this
success without any problem.

Please note down that once the fund get transferred into
your account, you will take 39% of the total sum while the
rest will be for me as I will arrange myself down to your
country to take my share.
I need your urgent response and include your private
telephone/mobile numbers for easy communication.Please reply
on this e-mail address, eweleeguatu1@gmail.com

Yours truly,
Mr. Ewele Eguatu

Anti-fraud resources:

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