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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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "kuma ray" <kumaray7@msn.com>
Reply-To: kumaray_111@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:22:38 +0000
Subject: PLs reply me immediately??




Dear Sir,

How are you today, I know that this mail may come to you as a surprise
regarding to this business am about introducing to you. Please if you would
not want to partake in this deal, my plead is to keep this to yourself.
Firstly, I must to introduce my self properly to you,

I am Mr. Kuma Ray, The Personal Assistant to ENGINEER, LAMBERT LIM, A
Contractor,
Oil Merchant with Shell Petroleum Nigeria Plc. ENG. LAMBERT LIM, The
Director, Lamblim Oil Services Ltd, It happens it is from the same Country
with you, He died in a ghastly air crash two years ago. As his personal
assistant after his death, I secured some of his vital Documents that
belongs to him from the company directors, which are still in my bposition
till date. In the month of June 2000,
Mr. LAMBERT LIM deposited the sum of TEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUNSAND
DOLLARS ONLY, (USD $ 10.2 M) With FIRST BANK NIGERIA PLC.
The fund has been in the Bank. All valued efforts by the Bank to contact his
wife, children or
relatives failed abortive.

I have to contact you in regard that my boss is not from Nigeria by birth,
he nationalized in Nigeria in the year 1979 and was married to a Nigerian
and both died at the crash. My purpose of contacting you is to seek for your
assistance to transfer this money into your Account as the NEXT OF KIN, To
Mr. LAMBERT LIM. All vital documents regarding to this DEPOSIT of this fund
are here in my position,

which I will forward to you in order to make contact with the Bank for
further transfer of the money to your Account. Subsequent to this, an
agreement has to be reached to solidify and agree on the sharing bases,
which must state that you will not sit on the money after the money must
have been confirmed in your Account.

Further more, be full assured that this transaction is 100% risk free, Have
no fear in you as every vital Documents to back up your claim has been
perfectly worked out. Finally, if you are willing to assist me, respond
immediately to me as the bank is about closing his Account and write off the
fund as bad debt. Expect your immediate response.

Best Regards,

Mr. Kuma Ray

LAMBLIM OIL SERVICES LIMITED

32 WILLIAMS STREET,

VICTORIA ISLAND

LAGOS-NIGERIA

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