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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • tunde_balogun_san203@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "TUNDE BALOGUN" <tunde_balogun_san@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tunde_balogun_san203@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:54:32 +0000
Subject: HELLO TRUST FRIEND,

FROM THE DESK OF:
MR.TUNDE K .BALOGUN (SAN).
CHAIRMAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC.
MARINA-BRANCH,LAGOS.
 
HELLO TRUST FRIEND,
 
MY NAME IS MR.TUNDE K .BALOGUN (SAN),THE CHAIRMAN BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF UNITED BANK FOR AFRICAPLC. I AM WRITING INRESPECT OF A FOREIGN CUSTOMER OF MY BANK WHO USED TO WORK WITH CHEVRON OIL COMPANY IN NIGERIA HERE IN NIGERIA, WITH ACCOUNT NUMBER 14-255-2004/UBA/T.
 
ON SUNDAY, 27TH OF JANUARY 2002, THIS FOREIGN CUSTOMER AND HIS WIFE
LADY ANNA AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN {ELIZABETH, DEXTER AND JAMES} WERE
INVOLVED IN TERRIBLE BOMB BLAST THAT TOOK THEIR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF OTHER INNOCENT SOULS. ABOUT 1,000 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE BOMB BLAST.
 
JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THIS WEB PAGE,
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm),
 
YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. SINCE THEN I HAVE MADE
SEVERAL ENQUIRIES TO YOUR EMBASSY TO LOCATE ANY OF HIS EXTENDED RELATIVES.
THIS HAD BEEN AN EFFORT IN FUTILITY.SINCE THE DEMISE OF THIS OUR CUSTOMER, I PERSONALLY HAS WATCHED WITH KEEN INTEREST TO SEE THE NEXT OF KIN BUT ALL HAS PROVED ABORTIVE AS NOONE HAS COME TO CLAIM HIS FUNDS OF$45M, (FORTY MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS) WHICH HAS BEEN WITH MY BRANCH FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
 
ON THIS NOTE, I DECIDED TO SEEK FOR WHOM HIS NAME SHALL BE USED AS THE NEXT OF KIN, AS NO ONE HAS COME UP TO BE THE NEXT OF KIN, AND OUR
BANKING ETHICS HERE DOES NOT ALLOW SUCH MONEY TO STAY. IN VIEW OF THIS, I GOT YOUR CONTACT WHILE SEARCHING THROUGH THE INTERNET AFTER REALIZING THAT YOUR NAME IS SIMILAR TO THE DECEASED NAME. I WILL GIVE YOU 30% OF THE TOTAL SUM.
 
UPON THE RECEIPT OF YOUR RESPONSE, I WILL SEND YOU BY E-MAIL THE
APPLICATION OF CLAIM AND THE NEXT STEP TO TAKE. I WILL NOT FAIL TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT THIS BUSINESS IS HITCH FREE, AND YOU SHOULD NOT ENTERTAIN ANY FEAR AS ALL MODALITIES FOR FUND TRANSFER CAN BE FINALIZED WITHIN FIVE BANK WORKING DAYS, AFTER YOU APPLY TO OUR BANK AS A RELATION TO THE DECEASED, I WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW TO APPLY IN OUR BANK.
 
WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS LETTER. KINDLY SEND ME AN E-MAIL THROUGH MY
ATERNATIVE EMAIL: tunde_balogun_san203@hotmail.com SIGNIFYING YOUR DECISION INCLUDING YOUR PRIVATE TEL/FAX NUMBERS FOR QUICK COMMUNICATION.
 
 ANY DELAY IN YOUR REPLY WILL GIVE ME ROOM INSOURCING ANOTHER PERSON FOR THIS SAME PURPOSE. PLEASE ASSURE ME THAT YOU WILL ACT ACCORDINGLY AS I STATED HEREIN.
 
 FOR IMMEDIATE COMMENCEMENT ON THIS TRANSACTION, RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
 
BEST REGARDS,
 
MR.TUNDE K.BALOGUN (SAN).
CHAIRMAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC.

 

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