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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:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • jeorafindadi@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Joe Rafindadi" <joerafindadi@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: joerafindadi@myway.com
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:27:31 -0900
Subject: From: DR.Jeo Rafindadi.

From: DR.Jeo Rafindadi.
H.O.D. Clinical Pharmacology,
University of Lagos,
Lagos State,
Nigeria.

Dear Respectable One,

I am DR.Jeo Rafindadi. the Head of Department of Clinical Pharmacology and
Director of research, at the University of Lagos,Lagos State Nigeria. I
write to solicit your assistance in a project of mutual benefits.
In February 1999, a research grant (US$12.5Million) was given to my
department with me leading a team of other clinical pharmacologists, by the
Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, to conduct a research on the effect of a
Sickle Cell Disease in Nigeria.
The research has since been concluded (specifically in August 2002). Of the
total amount given to us for the research purposes we only expended
US$4.2Million leaving a balance of US$8.3 Million.
We are contacting you with a view to transferring this balance out for our
own use. We have put in over 25 years of our lives into working for the
government and as academics we do NOT have anything to show for it, hence
this
opportunity we see as a God-Sent one.
We sincerely hope that you will be of assistance to us. I implore you to
treat this mail as confidentially as possible as we are still active
academicians,though retiring in the first quarter of next year. If you are
not in a position to assist us,do not respond to this mail and we apologize
for taking your time.
Upon receipt of your acceptance to assist us in this, we will negotiate on
what should be your take home from this amount for helping us. If interested
in this venture, please send me your full names, private contact address and
your direct telephone numbers for effective communication.
If you are really capable and willing to assist us please contact me
immediately with this
e-mail address:- jeorafindadi@myway.com </cgi-bin/compose?I await your
urgent response for immediate action for the transfer.
Sincrely yours,
Dr.DR.Jeo Rafindadi

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