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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "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)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • rev_pn_kwamegodwin@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rev Kwame" <rev_kwame@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:21:01 -0900
Subject: PLEASE VERY URGENT

THE MANAGER
ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC.

Dear Sir.
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of its nature as
being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know that a transaction
of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to
contact you by e-mail due to the urgency of this transaction. Let me start
by first introdusing myself properly to you. I am Rev.p.n.kwame, a Manager
at the ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC.of Nigeria PLC, Lagos. I came to know
of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a
very confidential transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum of
money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. I am not too really
sure if you are my long lost contact whom I am trying to reach, but in
anyway, please do take this message with a good heart and report back to me
if you are not the person I think you are. I would explain more latter.THE
PROPOSITION: A foreigner, late Engineer Johnson Creek, an Oil Merchant /
contractor with the federal Govenment of Nigeria, until his death two years
ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Zenith Bank PLC., Lagos,
and had a closing balance of USD$19.5M ( nineteen Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to
be claimed by any of his available next of kin or alternatively be donated
to a discredited trust fund for alms and ammunition at a military war
college here in Nigeria.Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the
Zenith Bank to get in touch with any of the Creek family or relatives but
all have proved to no avail.It is because of the perceived possibility of
not going to be able to locate any of late Engr. Johnson Creek's next of kin
(he had no known wife and children) that the management under the influence
of our Chairman, board of directors, Retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu,
that an arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE" and then be
subsequently donated to the Trust Fund for Alms and Ammunition which will
further enhance the courses of war in Africa and the world in general.In
order to avert this negative development,

myself and some of my trusted colleagues here at the bank now seek for your
permission to have you stand as late Engr. Johnson Creek's next of kin so
that the fund, USD$19.5M would be subsequently transferred and paid into
your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves
to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are
assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. For your assistance, your
commission would be 40%. 10% has been set aside for expenses while the rest
would be for myself and my colleagues.If this proposal is OK. by you and you
do not wish to take advantage of the trust we hope to bestow on you and your
company, then kindly get to me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with
your most confidential telephone, fax number and exclusive e-mail so that I
can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction. Thank you in
advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Regards,Rev.p.n.kwame,
ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC.
N.B. PLEASE, FOR CONFIDENTIAL REASON, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO SEND ME YOUR
RESPONSE VIA THIS EMAIL ADDRESS:rev_pn_kwamegodwin@yahoo.co.uk

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