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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • western_agency01@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "dan moske" <dan_moske@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:49:58 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

Compliments
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to an
oversea account ($60,700.000.00 USD) Sixty Million Seven Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) from one of the banks in africa.

I want to ask you, If you are not capable let me know to quietly look for a
reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an
existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive
this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as
you will remain honestto me till the end of this important business,I am
trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either
now or in future.I am mr ikem onu during the course of our auditing last
week.

I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1996 and
since 1998 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through
some old files in the records,I discovered that the owner of the account
died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit
this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.The owner of this
account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a
resident of Alaska, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crahsed on January 31 2000,including his
wife and only daughter leaving nobody as nest of kin.
You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this
site:(http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/) and(
ttp://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp


No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that the account is a secret account. The total amount involved is Sixty
million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only [$60,700.000.00]
and we wish to transfer this money into a safe foreigners account abroad.

But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but to a
foreigner who has information about the account, which I shall give to you
upon your positive response. I am revealing this to you with believe in God
that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the
only person that I am contacting for this business,

so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
urgently.I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me
and key bank officials who are deeply involved with me in this business.

I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and i from any breach of the law.The bank
official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive
this money, leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position and
influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to
your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and
foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25% of the total
amount, 70% will be for us, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring. I look forward to your
earliest reply.

PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET AND REPLY ONLY TO THIS
E-MAIL: western_agency01@yahoo.com
Best Regards,
MR IKEM-ONU



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