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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:
  • "million 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Johnson EZe" <johnson_eze11@msn.com>
Reply-To: johnson_eze200@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:19:01 +0000
Subject: FROM MR JOHNSON EZE.

FROM MR JOHNSON EZE.

DATE:2ND OF FEBUARY 2006.

ATTN:

RE: TRANSFER OF ($25,000.000.00)TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS.
I want to transfer to overseas $25,000.000.00 twenty five million United
States Dollars from UBA PLC,Ogui branch in nigeria, I am seeking for a
reliable and honest person who will becapable and fit to provide either an
existing bank account or set up anew Bank account immediately to receive
this fund, even an empty account can serve this purpose,or you help to seek
an honest and reliable businessman who can assist us. I am MR JOHNSON EZE,
an accountant and bankmanager, during the course of our auditing I
discovered a floating fund in adomiciliary account opened in the bank in
1990 and since 1993nobody has operated on this account, after going through
some old files inthe records I discovered that the owner of the account who
is a foreigner died without any traceable next of kin hence the dormant
nature of the account and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will
be re-channeled into the bank's reserve.

I suggest we start the first transfer with twenty million Dollars
[$20,000.000] and upon the successful transfer of the first $20million
without hitches or disappointment from you, I shall re-apply for the
remittance of the balance of the fund to your nominated account. I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved for a
local account here and I am not supposed to be in possession of such amount
of dollars, but the fund can only be approved to any foreigner or into a
foreign account. I suggest we meet face to face to get acquainted, as the
fund in question is alarge one before we commence with transfer. I need your
full co-operation to make this work fine, as I will use my office to see
that the transaction is hitch free and I will destroy all documents relating
the transaction once we conclude the transaction. On the conclusion of this
business, ! you will be given 15% of the total amount, 80% will be for
me,while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have ncurred during the
process of this transaction. I look forward to your earliest reply through
my personal email.

Bestregard,

MR JOHNSON EZE.

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