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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:
  • "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.
  • vinmartinsilo@yahoo.com
  • vicmartinsilo@gmail.com
  • vicmartinsilo@gmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Vincent Martins" <vinmartinsilo@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: vicmartinsilo@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:24:27 -0700
Subject: Good Day


Vincent Martins
vinmartinsilo@yahoo.com
vicmartinsilo@gmail.com

Dear Sir/Madam

I am Vincent Martins attached to one of the International Banks in my Country.
I am the personel Account Manager of Mr.Patrick Moller,a Foreign Nationale,
who used to work with Shell Petrolum Development Company here in Nigeria.
On the 22nd Sept, 2000,our customer,and his wife and their three
children were involved in a car accident along sagbama express road. All
occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then
I have made severalenquiries to your embassy to locate any of his
extended relatives but this has also proved unsuccessful.
I am contacting you now to assist in repartrating the money and
property left behind by our customer before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by our bank where he deposited fifteen million
five hundred united states dollars, US$15.5 million dollars in
our the International Bank.
The banking guidelines of our bank stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed for over a period of years and few months, with the account
unservicable the money will be confisicated and this will
happen after the next Year if nobody comes for the money. Since.we have
not seen any body for the money and his property for the last 5 years and
our bank has been notifying the Rotary club for the past
3 year,may I now seek your consent to present yourself as the next of
kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at
US$15.5 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can
share the money.
I guarantee that this will be executed underlegitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. Please, kindly get in touch
with me through the above email address: vicmartinsilo@gmail.com
Best regards.
Vincent Martins.




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