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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "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.
  • collinsm1001@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • collins_mark_cbn@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?collins=20mark?= <collinsm1001@yahoo.dk>
Reply-To: collins_mark_cbn@katamail.com
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 12:26:52 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: please urgent


Jeg har en ny e-mail-adresse!Nu kan du e-maile mig på: collinsm1001@yahoo.dk

MR COLLINS MARK

CITIZENS BANK

PLOT 143 AHMADU BELLO WAY

VICTORIA ISLAND

LAGOS NIGERIA.

EMAIL CONTACTS : collins_mark_cbn@katamail.com



MOBILE PHONE: 234 8033 6635 77



MY DEAR FRIEND,



PLEASE GO THROUGH THIS WEBSITE BEFORE READING THIS MAIL.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm



I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition haven come across

your remarkable profile on the internet.Though, this medium

(Internet)has been greatly abused, but I chose to reach you through internet because

it still remains the fastest, surest and most secured medium of

communication at the moment.



However,this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be

treated as such. I also guarantee you that this deal is hitch free from all

you may think of.


THIS TRANSACTION IS REAL AND YOU WILL CONFIRM THIS WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.



I am Mr. Collins Mark, An official of CITIZENS BANK OF NIGERIA.

I am contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that will be attached

to this deal. The Management and the Legal department of my BANK (CITIZENS

BANK OF NIGERIA) in a recent meeting, recommended that the fix deposit bank account of MR.Andreas Schranner,64,should be declared dormant,confisticated and the depositor's fund sent to the Bank Treasury Due to the non claim of the fix deposited funds in the account on Maturity by MR ANDREAS SCHRANNER in Line with the Nigeria's Banking Law and regulation.



MR.Andreas Schranner,64, A Rich German property investor,died On the 31st of July 2000 with his wife,Maria, 62, and their Children in Air France concord plane crash bound for New York United State of America.My bank has unsuccessfully made all efforts to locate any of the relatives of MR. Andreas Schranne to claim his deposited funds to no avail.



You can confirm the plane crash yourself via the website below:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm



LATE, MR. Andreas Schranne operated a fix deposit account in my bank valued at US$18.5.Million. (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only)



I wish to confide in you that since Mr Andreas Schranne died that non of his relatives has shown up for the claim of his deposited funds.



This is where I want you to come in to assist.

I want you to come in as a relation of MR.Andreas Schranner, I will arrange for an attorney that will handle all the legal processes about this transaction in your favour as the legal next of kin to late Mr Andreas Schranner. The attorney will put up an official application to the bank and to the high court in your favour as the legal next of kin to MR.Andreas Schranner.


The attorney will secure all the legal papers in your favour from the high court and carry out all the legal procedures in the high court and in the bank in your favour as the legal next of kin to late Mr ANDREAS SCHRANNER.



I will give you more information as soon as you indicate your willingness to assist in this

transaction.



I will use my position in the bank to get all internal documentations to back up the

claims.The whole Procedure will last for 10 bank working days to get the funds

successfully paid to you Without any trace even in future.



After the successful conclussion of this transaction, we shall share the funds

40% to you while 60% to me.



PLEASE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS MAIL THROUGH: collins_mark_cbn@katamail.com



Yours truly,



MR COLLINS MARK.




- collins mark

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