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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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • r_savimbi50@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • marcad234@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: marc adewale <r_savimbi50@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: marcad234@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:02:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: please urgent


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: r_savimbi50@yahoo.ca

From the Desk of Marcus Adewale.

Union Bank of Nigeria plc,

Lagos-Nigeria.

Dear Sir,

STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL

I know you will be surprise to receive this note from me for we have not met before. I am mr marcus adewale , The manager, Audit Department of the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc,marina head office. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered during our audit in october 2005 the sum of $5,700,000.00(five million seven hundred thousand US dollars only) paid into an account that belongs to a JAPANESE contractor who receive mobilasation fee from the NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLUEM CORPORATION(NNPC) on a construction contract in 2004 and abandone work due to activities of militant youths in the Niger/Delta region of Nigeria.

Since 2004 when the JAPANESE company left Nigeria the said money has been in the JAPANESE company account as unclaim, we cannot release the fund from the account unless someone applies for claim. Upon this discovery, I and 2 officials in my department have agreed to do business with you and release the total amount into your bank account for our benefit otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund if detected.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone number, fax number, full name and address and your designated bank account to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.

Please keep STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature.

I look forward to receiving your prompt response.


mr marcus adewale

Union Bank of Nigeria.

marcad234@hotmail.com





- marc adewale

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