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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "diplomatic unit " ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist 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.
  • fred_williams01@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Fred Williams" <fred_williams02@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:21:59 +0000
Subject: VERY CONFIDENTIAL

>From Advocate Fred Williams (LLB, MBA ,SAN)
Fred Williams & Associate.

Dear Friend,

I crave your indulgence for the unsolicited nature of this mail, but it
was borne out of desperation and current development.
Please bear with me. Iam Advocate Fred Williams a solicitor
at law. I was the Personal attorney to Her Excellency, late Dr. Mrs
Stella Obasanjo, wife of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria
His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo, Herein after shall be referred
to as my client.

On Sunday the October 23rd 2005 , my client Her Excellency Dr. Mrs Stella
Obasanjo had traveled to Spain to undergo surgery and died from
complications resulting from that surgery. I have contacted you to assist in
repatriating the money she deposited with a diplomatic unit in united Arab
Emirate, (Dubai).U.A.E with no name as beneficiary of the fund ,hoping she
will use the money abroad and register it
with the name of her biological family. I am the only person who knows
about this as her personal lawyer. Nobody knows that she is the real
owner of the fund,because I helped her to register the fund with
another name (TAGED PERSONAL EFFECT WITH THE U.A.E DIPLOMATIC UNIT ) as the
ownerof the fund, so as to prevent the federal ministry of finance from her
country from probing the fund.

I seek your consent, to present you as the foreign beneficiary of the
deposit , so that the proceeds of this account valued at $12.5 million
Dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money in your
country or as you may advice, 60% shall be for me and 40% for you.I would
get all necessary legal documents from U.A.E that would be needed and used
to back up this claim which is very important. All I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you and I from any breach of law.
This deal is strictly confidential.

For further clarification about her death, see the Website below:
www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/obasanjo.obituary
More so Do not fail to send me your telephone number with which I would be
able to call you, so we can talk and discuss extensively one-on-one as
regards this deal.
I look forward to your urgent response through my private email address:
fred_williams01@hotmail.com

Yours In Service.
Advocate Fred Williams (LLB, MBA ,SAN)
For Dr Stella Obasanjo ( Late First Lady Of
Nigeria.)

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