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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:

• 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.
  • dossisteinbach22334@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Dossi Steinbach" <mm22334ds@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:21:32 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP !!

Dear Beloved,

I am the Manager of Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department
of First Bank of Nigeria Plc. I got your address through the Nigeria Chamber
of Commerce and Industry and I hope you could be of help to me. In my
department I discovered an abandoned sum of US$18 million (Eighteen Million
United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died in a plane crash in November 2002.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
Next-of-Kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately none of his next of kin has come forward for this claim. It is
therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make business with you and release the money
to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this
money to go back into Federal Government Account as unclaimed bill. The
banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remains
unclaimed after four years the money will be transferred into the banking
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a Foreigner
and a Nigeria cannot stand as a next of kin to a foreigner.

I resolve that 30 percent of this money will be for you as foreign partner.
There after I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the
percentages indicated. Please, be honest with me.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax text the application
with the name of the deceased and his country and other information about
him.

As soon as you receive this letter, you should contact me at once through
this e-mailbox: (dossisteinbach22334@yahoo.co.uk) and include your phone &
fax number for the effective communication required.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

MR.DOSSI STEINBACH,
MANAGER OF BILLS AND EXCHANGE.


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