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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • tony_ibe1955@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Tonyibe@UniFish.de
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:32:27 +0200
Subject: I LOOK FORWARD HEARING FROM YOU

FROM THE DESK OF: (BARRISTER TONY IBE


FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION; THIS IS BY VIRTUE OF ITS NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET. THOUGH I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL MAKE ANY ONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED, BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. I HAVE DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU DUE TO THE URGENCY OF THIS TRANSACTION.

LET ME START BY FIRST INTRODUCING MYSELF PROPERLY TO YOU, I AM BARRISTER TONY IBE, ATTORNEY TO LATE ENGINEER ANDREW. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY PRIVATE SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE THIS CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO A FOREIGN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.

MY PROPOSITION A FOREIGNER, LATE ENGINEER ANDREW, AN OIL MERCHANT/CONTRACTOR WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA, UNTIL HIS DEATH THREE YEARS AGO IN A GHASTLY AIR CRASH, BANKED WITH THE UNION BANK PLC. LAGOS, MY CLIENT HAD A BALANCE OF US$18.5M (EIGHTEEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) WHICH THE BANK NOW
UNQUESTIONABLY EXPECTS IT TO BE CLAIMED BY ANY AVAILABLE FOREIGN NEXT-OF-KIN OF THE LATE BENEFICIARY. FERVENT VALUABLE EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE BY THE UNION BANK TO LOCATE HIS NEXT-OF-KIN WITHOUT SUCCESS AND SINCE I AM HIS ATTORNEY, A LETTER WAS SENT TO ME TO PROVIDE HIS NEXT OF KIN OR RELATIVES, WHICH I TRIED BUT PROVED TO NO AVAIL.

IT IS BECAUSE OF THE PERCEIVED POSSIBILITY OF NOT BEING ABLE TO LOCATE ANY OF LATE ENGR. ANDREW NEXT-OF-KIN (HE HAD NO WIFE AND CHILDREN) THAT THE MANAGEMENT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, RETIRED MAJOR GENERAL KALU UKE KALU, THAT THE FUND SHOULD BE DECLARED UN-CLAIMABLE " UNTIL THE NEXT-OF-KIN OF LATE ENGR. ANDREW COMES TO CLAIM THE FUNDS, MY INTEREST OF WRITING YOU IS BECAUSE YOU BEAR THE SAME LAST NAME OF MY LATE CLIENT. SO MY CONFIDENT IN THE BANK AND I NOW SEEK YOUR PERMISSION TO
HAVE YOU STAND AS A NEXT-OF-KIN TO MY LATE CLIENT SO THAT THE FUNDS CAN BE RELEASED TO YOURS THE BENEFICIARY NEXT-OF-KIN, ALL DOCUMENTS AND PROVES TO ENABLE YOU GET THIS FUND US$18.5M WILL BE CAREFULLY WORKED OUT BY ME AND MORE SO WE ARE ASSURING YOU OF A 100% RISK FREE INVOLVEMENT.

PERTAINING THE DISBURSEMENT OF THE 18.5MILLION US DOLLARS UPON YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ON YOUR WILLINGNESS TO BE A PART OF THIS ARRANGEMENT, THEN WE WILL DISCUSS ON WHAT GETS TO YOU PLEASE YOUR EARLIEST RESPOND WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED. PLEASE RESPOND ONLY ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS; TONY_IBE1955@HOTMAIL.COM


REGARDS

TONY IBE (BARRISTER)

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