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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • pet_peter7@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: peter okocha <pet_peter7@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: pet_peter1@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:08:26 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME SOON


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: pet_peter7@yahoo.com

Dear Friend,

I am Mr Peter Okocha, the personal financial consultant to Mr Gregory

Barrow,a national of your country, who used to work with the Nigeria Petroleum Trust Fund,(PTF),as an expartriate staff,here in Nigeria He was our valued Customer.On the 23ND OCT 2005, my client, his wife And their only child were involved in the plane crash here in Ngeria with EAS Airlines (Executive Airline Services) flight,EAS 4226,Registration: 5N-ESF,with our then sports minister Mr Mark Ishaya Aku. Since then I have made several attempts to locate any of his extended relatives but this has also proved unsuccessful.After those several unsuccessful attempts to locate any member of his family, I decided to contact you on this subject matter so that I can present you as the bonafide next of kin to the said account.

NOTE:

Your business status does not matter in this transaction,What matters

is your ability to assist in repartrating the fund left behind by my

client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Finance

Company where this huge sum is lodged. Particularly,the Pacific Finance

and Investment Company where the deceased had a deposit whose total value

including accrued interest is about US$12.5Million (Twelve Million Five

Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only).As his finance consultant in the same

company,I have been mandated to provide the next of kin or have the

fund confisicated within few weeks.Since I have no clue of any of his

next of kin/relatives,and has tried unsuccesfully to locate them for some

months now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the

deceased as if it is an inheritance left behind by him for you as his next of kin so that the

proceeds of this account valued at US$12.5Million(Twelve Million Five

Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only) will be paid to you as an

inheritance, and then you and I will share the fund after you receive it in your

account.



I have the ability to negotiate for the release of the Death Certificate of the

deceased,which shall serve as one of the legal documents that can be used to back-up

the transaction.If you can handle this transaction for our joint benefit,

please get back to me on as soon as possible,so that I can give you more

details on this matter.What is required now is to register/authenticate you as the

bonafide next of kin to the fund.


All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal

through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate

arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.We will

discuss the sharing ratio when you respond.I look forward to hearing from you

soon.


Best Regards.

Mr.Peter Okocha




- peter okocha

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