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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "ich habe eine neue e-mail-adresse!" (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.
  • mrdanmusa01@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dan=20Musa?= <mrdanmusa01@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: mrdanmusa@myway.com
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 18:25:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dear Friend,


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: mrdanmusa01@yahoo.de

Dear Friend,



I am Mr.Dan Musa, I'm an Account Officer with Union Bank Plc.I have decided to bestow this trust on you which I pray you will not ignore or betray. My apologies in advance for any inconveniences this may cause you. I am the personal Account Officer to late Engineer Peter W.Paul, He was an oil merchant, arepresentative/fiduciary agent to some Refineries overseas and an expertrate contractor with Oil servicing Firm here in Nigeria.Engineer Peter W.Paul, was a victim (died) together with his wife and two children in Egyptian air, that crash on October 31st 1999 I’m contacting you after my several contacts, made to locate any of my client's extended family who will apply to receive the sum of ($3Million US Dollars) which is the value of the Fixed deposit made by the Late Engr.Peter

with our Bank (Union Bank of Nigeria Plc).



This site is to tell you more about the crash.www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id311/pg1/index.html



Upon the duration time of his fixed deposit agreement of which our Bank have contacted him without gettingany response from him, the bank instructed me to provide the Next Of Kin tothe late Engr.Peter W.Paul, since I was his Account Manager Otherwise the Account would be frozen by the government of Nigeria, due to the law applied by the Bank.



It is in search for my client's family member, hence I contacted you, that I will position you as the bona-fide next of kin to Engr.Peter W.Paul, to enable our Bank released the $3Million US Dollars to your personal account or any account of your choice, which after we share the total funds according to the percentage we shall agreed on. Please if you are ready and interested to carry out this Mutually/Benficial transaction with me,kindly feel free, contact me directly once you received this proposal for details on how you can claimed the above total sum to your account. As it may concern you to know, we can only achieve this transaction within 10 working days.



FOR EASIER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN US, IN YOUR REPLY TO THIS MAIL,KINGLYFORWARD YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.

Waiting for your urgent/positive response.


Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Dan Musa,

UNION BANK PLC

- Dan Musa

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