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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • mrwilliamduru60@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.William Duru" <mrwilliamduru200@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:42:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE



CHASE SECURITY & TRUST COMPANY (CS&TC) LTD
2A, FENHITOLEGIWA STREET,
LAGOS, NIGERIA
EMAIL: mrwilliamduru60@yahoo.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am MR.WILLIAM DURU , the Director of Operations CHASE SECURITY & TRUST COMPANY (CS&TC) LTD, LAGOS NIGERIA. Here in NIGERIA Our firm is a security company of high repute with years of outstanding service to the people of Africa. I have resolved to contact you through this medium based on business proposal that will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I got your particulars through a consultant company base on my research for a trustworthy and established person that understands investment ethic for entering into a life time profitable joint partnership investment and also co-operation with confidence and trust that you will keep the contents secret and divulged to any third party. To be explicit and straight to the point. Some time early 2000, a reputable client of ours deposited a consignment in our company\'s vault for safe keeping. And since then our client has failed to come forward to claim his consignment, which has accumulated a considerable amount of money in demurrage.
Consequently, in our bide to contact this client to redeem the demurrage which his consignment had accumulated we discovered that our client was the former Nigeria youth and sports minister LATE MR. MARK ISHAYA AKU who died in a plane crash on the 4th of april,2002. Find more details in the BBC NEWS about the plane crash["http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm}none of his benefactors has come forward to claim the consignment with us, which means that non of his relatives or aids had any knowledge of this consignment. Hence out of curiosity I decided to secretly open the two boxes that our client deposited in our vault. And to my surprise I discovered that the two boxes that were registered as treasurer by our client actually contained a considerable amount of money in United States Dollars amounting to about US$21 million Dollar. Since this development I have been nursing plans secretly. I also found out from enquiries and the foreign media that our late client siphoned
a lot of money from his position as the youth and sports minister the while he was in office, because he worked under the late SANI ABACHE former military president of Nigeria and the most corrupt governments in the world. It is my conviction that the consignment in our vault was part of the money that our client siphoned and now that he is dead there is no race to this money in our care. I am now soliciting your noble assistance to assist me in transferring this money out of Nigeria to your country for immediate investment with your assistance. I have also decided that you will generously be entitled to 30% of the total amount. Upon my receipt of your reply confirming your willingness to assist me of this transaction, I will immediately arrange and transfer all the rights of ownership of this consignment to your name to facilitate your easy clearance and transfer of the complete funds to your country. You have nothing to worry about, as I will be there to assist you in anyway
necessary with all proper documentation. This transaction is 100% risk free. Please maintain absolute confidentiality on this matter. Please reply to the above email address with your telephone and fax so can call you.
Thanks.
Yours faithfully.
MR.WILLIAM DURU




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