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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:
  • "million pounds" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • kelvin.majek@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Kelvin Majekodunmi <kelvin.majek123@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kelvin.majek@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 03:30:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ATTENTION YOUR AUDIENCE IS NEEDED!(CONTACT:kelvin.majek@gmail.com)


Dear Sir,

I am Mr. Kelvin Majekodunmi. I wor= k with the Bank
of Industry Ltd
as an account officer in the Treasur= y/Credit
Control Unit.
I was the accounting officer of a national of= your
country,
who died with his wife and their only son in a motor
acident.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track
his last name over the Internet, to locate any
member of= his
family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you
to assist <B= R>in repatriating the assets and
Capital valued at £12,540,000.00
= Million pounds (Twelve Million,Five Hundred and
Forty Thousand Pounds On= ly)
left behind by my client before they get confiscated
or declaredunserviceable by the share holders of this Bank, so
that they
c
n share his funds as dividends amongst
themselves.

The Ban= k has issued me a notice to provide the
next of kin or
have the acco= unt confiscated within the next
fourteen official working days.
Beca= use as at the time of his demise I was his
accounting officer,
but h
ve since been promoted to the position of
Treasury/Credit Control Unit,ever since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for s= ometime now,
I seek your consent to present you as the next of
kin t= o the deceased since
you have the same last names, so that the proceds
of this account can
be paid to you.Therefore, on receipt of yourpositive response, we shall
then discuss modalities for transfer. <R>
As soon as I receive an acknowledgment of your
acceptance, = I will furnish you
with the necessary modalities of the transaction.= I
assure you that this
transaction is 100% risk free, and as soon a= s we
succeed in getting this
funds to your account, The money will b shared on
a 50, 50 basis.........
I guarantee that this will be excuted under a
legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from anyreach of the law.

I am waiting to hear from you soon. </= P>

Ensure you reply to my private email :
kelvin.majek@gmail.com

Best regards, <B= R>
Kelvin Majekodunmi

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