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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:
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • fredhawk_2005@yahoo.co.uk
  • fredhawk_2005@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "wilfred francis" <wilfred_2006@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:27:55 +0000
Subject: ACT AS THE NEXT OF KIN.

Mr Wilfred Francis.
First Atlantic Bank PLC
4/6 Adetokunbo Ademola Street
P. O. Box 75369
Victoria Island, Lagos-Nigeria
website: <www.firstatlanticbank.com>

E mail me;(fredhawk_2005@yahoo.co.uk)

I Am Mr Wilfred Francis, in charge of bills and foreign
exchange remittance Department of First Atlantic Bank Plc.
I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.

We discovered an unclaimed sum of $24.5Million (Twenty-four million five hundred thousand dollars) in an account belonging to one of our customer, who died in a plane crash with the entire family in year 2003.
Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money.

Unfortunately,neither the family nor the relation has appeared to claim
this
money. We cannot release this money unless somebody applies as the next
of kin or relation to the deceased.

Our banking guidelines indicated that if such money remained unclaimed
for a period of four (4) years, it would be transferred into the First Atlantic Bank Treasury as unclaimed fund.

Another officer and I in the department now decided to transfer this
money into your account as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for
easy collection since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to
go back into the bank treasury as the unclaimed debt.

Infact it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer
out this money through another foreign beneficiary outside the country.We
have decided to give you 25% of the total sum.

So please, as a matter of urgency send to me your telephone and fax numbers for effective communication. I will do my best to see that we conclude
this transaction successfully on time.

Please if you are intrested send me an immediate mail so that I can explain the details to you to understand everything about this business.
Waiting for your urgent response.

Regards,

Mr Wilfred Francis.

E mail me;(fredhawk_2005@yahoo.co.uk)

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