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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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: =?us-ascii?Q?marksmith=20smith?= <marksmith.s@seznam.cz>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:19:11 +0100 (CET)
Subject:







THE DESK OF:DR,MARKSMITH
STARDAD TRUST BANK PLC
LAGOS .
E-MAIL- marksmith_bije2005@o2.pl
Dear Friend,
VERY CONFIDENTIAL.
I am the manager of Foreign Account Department of the Standard trust
Bank Plc. I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and
co-operation to carry out this transaction. We discovered an abandoned Sum of
US$20Million
(Twenty Million U.S Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along side his entire family in November 2002 in a
plane crash in Lagos.Since
this development, we have advertised for his next kin or any close
relation to come forward to claim this money, but nobody came to apply for the
claim. To this effect, I and two other officials in my department have decided
to look for a trusted foreign partner who can stand in as the next of
kin to the deceased and claim this money. We need a foreign partner to
apply mfor the claim because of the fact that the customer was a foreigner.
And we dont want this money to go into the banks treasure as unclaimed
fund.Every document to affect this process will emanate from table and I will
perfectevery document to be in accordance with the banking law and guidelines
so you have nothing to worry about.
All we require from you is to provide a bank account in your name or
your company name where the money will be transferd to and deposited. We
have agreed that 30% of the money will be for you, 10% for expenses incurred
on the both side while 60% will be for my colleagues and I. If you are
going to help me, indicate by replying this letter and putting in your bank
particulars,private telephone and fax numbers.
I await your immediate reply to enable us start this transaction in
earnest. Once I receive your reply, I will send you the modalities for immediate
application of claim.
Thanks for your anticipated assistance. You can reply through my
private Yours faithfully,
MARKSMITH

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