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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.
• 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.
  • info_etiokwe01@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Eti Okwe" <info_etiokwe@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:57:52 -0500
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT.

Dr Eti Okwe(ACCOUNTANT)
Assurance Trust Bank NIG .PLC
Email:(info_etiokwe01@yahoo.ca)

I am obliged to write you especially concerning this forthright
transaction.My name is Dr Eti Okwe, and I work in the Credit &
Accounts Department of of Assurance Trust Bank NIG .PLC,Lagos-Nigeria.

I am writing you in respect of a distinguished foreign customer with
our bank.Late Engr.John,who died in a Plane Crash, He was among those who
died in a plane crash here in Kano Nigeria in the year 2002 May 4th.

Sir,since the demise of this our customer, who was an oil
Merchant/contractor,I have kept a close watch of the deposit records
and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the money in this a/c
as next of kin to the late Engineer.Pls see website,below
.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm,
http://www.usafricaonline.com/ngrkanocrash.html

He had Deposit valued @ $12.5 million in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is
only an insider that could produce the code or password of the Deposit
particulars.As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce
the needed information other than my very self considering my position in
the bank as account officer.Based on the reason that nobody has come
forward to claim the deposit as next of kin,I hereby ask for your
cooperation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send
these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between
myself and you. At this point I am the only one with the information because
I have removed the deposit file from the safe.

I will need your full name and address,telephone and fax number for the
processing of the transfer in your name and favour. Finally i want you to
understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is
occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that
reason alone a Nigerian cannot represent as next of kin. When you contact
me, then we shall discuss the ratio of disbursement between us.Trusting to
hear from you,

I remain Respectfully yours,
Dr Eti Okwe, (Accountant)
Assurance Trust Bank NIG .PLC

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