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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: mac williams <macwilliams55@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 01:47:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS HELP


Dear sir/madam,
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you.I am an Accountant
with the Bills and Exchange Department, Foreign Remittance office of
African Express Banking Corporation (AEBC) . 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$25. 5 million (twenty five million
five hundred thousand US Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our Foreign customer who died along side his entire family in November
1997 in a plane crash. Since this development, we have advertised for
his next of 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 office, 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 for the claim because of the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and we don't want this money to go into the Bank's Treasury as unclaimed
Regards,

MAC WILLIAMS.


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