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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • cletusoboh@uku.co.uk
  • unionbankoffice@uku.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "yusuf ubanwa" <yu_ubanwa2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: omegaencommunications@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:49:09 +0000
Subject: NEXT OF KIN

(PLEASE REPLY ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW)


Dear Friend,

Firstly,i must solicite your confidence in this transaction.I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprenhensive,but be assured
that at the end all concerned would smile.I decided to contact you due
to the urgency of this transaction.

Let me introduce myself.I am Dr Cletus Oboh Branch Manager with Progress
Trust Bank Plc.I got your contact via my private search and dicided to ask
for your personal involvement because of the volume of your business.

THE PROPOSITION: A Foreigner,Late Mr Mark Scott an Expertriate engineer,who
is involved in oil merchant/contractor with the Federal Government of
Nigeria,until His death over two years ago in a ghastly car
accident,banked with us here and a closing balance as at the end of
March,2002 of USD7.5
Million (seven million,five hundred thousand untied dollars)equivalent in
the local currency,which the bank now expects a next of kin to claim as
beneficiary.

All efforts by bank to contact any of his relatives proved unseccesful. As a
result of this the Board of Directors are about to place the
as"UNCLAIMAMBLE"and it has been decided that this fund will be withdrawn
from our Bank here into the Central Bank as access. In order to prevent
this,some of my colleagues and i now seek your assistance to have you stand
in as the beneficiary's next of kin.All documents to enable you claim this
fund will be carefully worked out on your names and please note that This
Proposal is 100% risk free on your side. We have agreed that 30% of the
total fund when remitted would be your share. Again take note that up to 10%
of would stand as incidental expenses,The remaining 60% would be our
share,more details would follow with time.If this proposal is acceptable to
you ,kindly contact me through my private E-mail ( cletusoboh@uku.co.uk) or
(unionbankoffice@uku.co.uk)

Yours Faithfully,
Dr Cletus Oboh (PTB)

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