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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348057040466 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "POWELL SMITH" <posmith_08@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: posmith_01@ny.com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:59:49 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME IMMEDIATELY(URGENT REPLY FAST)

FROM THE DESK OF DSP WILFRED O. PETERS
AREA F. POLICE STATION, RUMAGBO, PH - RIVERS STATE.
Date: 20th February 2006.

Complement of the New Year and how is your family?

My name is Mr. Powell Smith, A DeputySuperintendent of Police (DSP) in
Nigeria Police Force ,Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. I am very
sorry
for the embarrassment this composition might course you at this moment,
as
we have never met physically before nor have any knowledge about each
other before now but the God of purpose who made it possible for us to
know
today discussing this business will prove him to us at the end of this
transaction.

I am the Superintendent Officer (SO) to the chiefsecurity officer Port
Harcourt Air Port Rivers State Nigeria. I led the first Police squad
that
visited the scene of the SOSOLISO AIR LINE that land crashed in
PortHarcourt Air Port on the 10th of December 2005 and killed 107
passengers on board leaving only four survivors. At the scene of the
crash,
I and three of my other colleagues discovered a silver metallic box
containing cash amount of $18,000,000.00 USD (Eighteen Million United
States
Dollars) and some few classified documents concerning the fund inside
the
box. The box was carefully wrapped and sowed round in a Jew sac when
I saw it and called my other colleagues who then joined and helped me
to
carry it out side the station first to a safe place.

The owner of the box is believed to have died in the plane crash. At
this
moment we have moved the box to a security Firm in Accra Ghana to safe
keep
the money and decide to contact you for a business relationship, which
if we
mutually agreed on terms and condition by writing,we will give you the
photocopies of those classified documents which were deposited along
with
the box. We will also give you our own deposit slip from the security
Firm
in Accra Ghana to enable you contact them in Accra and identify
yourself to
them with the copies of the documents and take the custody/delivery of
the
money.

We are very ready to receive your positive response on this proposal to
enable us commence immediately. The percentage sharing of this money
will be
inculcated in the agreement upon the receipt of your acceptance of
this
letter and will be agreed upon orally first before endorsing it on a
paper
by both parties (you and us). This agreement will be a bond between you
and
us against any betrayal of any kind from either party.Contact me on my
number +2348057040466

Thanks for your kind attention.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Powell smith.

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