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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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "ich habe eine neue e-mail-adresse!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "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.
  • tonyubaka90@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?TONY=20UBAKA?= <tonyubaka90@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: tonyubaka3@myway.com
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:56:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE.


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: tonyubaka90@yahoo.de

Mr. TONY UBAKA

MANAGER, CREDIT & BILLS DEPT.

GUARANTY TRUST BANK PLC

HEAD OFFICE BRANCH

LAGOS, NIGERIA.



Dear Sir/Madam,



Firstly I must solicit your confidence here, I know that a transaction Of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive but you should be assured That at the end of it all, all concerned will smile. I decided to contact You due to the urgency of this matter. By introduction, I am Mr. TONY UBAKA

A manager with Guaranty Trust Bank Nigeria Plc. I got your contact through my private search and I decided to ask your personal involvement. I believe you will be of assistance.



I am therefore contacting you over a foreigner, late Mr. EDWARD CYPHER, an Engineer who was a petroleum consultant/contractor with the government of Nigeria and other agencies, until his death over two years ago in a ghastly Motor accident. He banked with us here in Lagos and had a closing balance as At the end of March, 2003, the sum of Fourteen Million, Three Hundred Thousand S$14.3m) dollars, which the bank now expects the next of kin to claim As the beneficiary. all efforts by the bank to contact any of his relatives has proved Unsuccessful.

As a result of this, the board of directors are about to place the fund As UNCLAIMED, if the account continues to remain in-service. It will amount to the bank converting the money into their own official capital base. In order to prevent this, some of my trusted colleagues and I, now Seeks your permission to have you stand as the next of kin to the late Engineer.

All documents which enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. This proposal is 100% risk free on your side, and our side. We have agreed that 30% of the total fund will be remitted into your account which you will provide, Then 5% of the fund will stand as costs for Incidental expenses. The remaining 65% will be our own share. Please treat this matter as urgent and confidential.



In your reply send me your full contact address/phone and fax number for easy communication. ,Also include your bank information's



Yours faithfully,





Mr. TONY UBAKA.




- TONY UBAKA

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