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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.
  • darlingtonchukwuemeka60@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "darlington chukwuemeka" <darlingtonchukwuemeka@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:53:38 -0500
Subject: URGENT

Prince Darlington Chukwu-Emeka
Foreign Accounts Manager
Commerce Bank of Africa Plc.
Lagos-Nigeria.
Alternative Email: darlingtonchukwuemeka60@hotmail.com

Compliment of the season,

I am contacting you based on your reliable personality as RSSSF Member.

I am the Manager of Foreign Accounts Department of the Commerce Bank of
Africa Plc. I am writing to solicit your support and co-operation to assist
me receive the Sum of US$19.5Million (Nineteen Million,Five Hundred Thousand
U.S Dollars) discovered and abounded in our bank which belongs to one of our
foreign customer Mr. Frank Simons, a national of your country, who worked
with PETRO BONDS Limited in Bonny Island, River State as an Engineer and a
Consultant in Deep-Sea Oil Exploration.

On The 4th of May 2002, Niger-Delta Militia youth group killed Mr. Frank
Simons while servicing an Oil Well installation in the Region. To this
effect, I and two other officials in my department have decided to look for
a trusted foreign partner who can stand in as the next of kin to the
deceased and claim this money. We need a foreign trusted partner to apply
for the claim since the late customer was a foreigner. And we don't want
this money to go into the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.

All documents to effect this process will emanate from my table and I will
perfect every documents to be in accordance with the banking Rules and
Regulations. We have agreed that 30% of the money will be for you, 10% for
expenses incurred on the both side while 60% will be for my colleagues and
me.

All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Upon reply to this mail on the above email address as an alternative,
include the phone number to always reach you and your resident address.
Best regards,

Prince Darlington Chukwu-Emeka
Manager (CBA)

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