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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "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.
  • allisonobia26@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • allisonobi_1962@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: allison obi <allisonobia26@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: allisonobi_1962@myway.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:59:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: allisonobia26@yahoo.ca

CITIZENS INTERNATIONAL BANK LTD.

LAGOS.NIGERIA


Dear Friend,


I am the Operations Officer, BILL AND EXCHANGE of THE

FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF CITIZENS

INTERNATIONAL

BANK LTD.,LAGOS.NIGERIA.


I am writing to you, following the impressive

information about your profile through the Website,and

I believe in your capability and reliability

to champion this opportunity.


In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of

14million US dollars (Fourteen million US dollars)

in an account that belongs to one of our foreign

customers who died along with his entire family in

october6,2000 in a plane crash.


Since we got information about his death, we have been

expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his

money because we can not release it unless some body

applies for it as next of Kin or relative to the

deceased as indicated in our banking and financial

policies but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed

next of kin or relation died with him in the accident

leaving nobody behind to claim the money.


It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other

officials in my department now decided to make this

business proposal to you and release the money to you

as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for

safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is

coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into

the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.



The Banking law and guide line here stipulates that if

such money remained unclaimed after eight years, the

money will be transferred into the Bank

treasury as unclaimed fund.


The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this

business is occasioned by the fact that the customer

was a foreigner and an indigene cannot stand as next

of kin to the deceased family.


We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as

foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a

foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses

incurred during this transaction and 75 % would be for

me and my colleagues.


Thereafter,I and my colleagues will visit your country

for disbursement according to the percentages

indicated.Therefore, to enhance the immediate transfer

of thisfund to you as arranged,you must apply first to

theBank as relation or next of kin of the deceased

indicating your private, telephone and fax number for

easy and effective communication and location where

the money will be remitted.


Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by

faxor e-mail the text of the application.I will not

fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is

hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom

of fear as all required arrangements have been made

for the transfer.


You should contact me on MY E-MAIL, as soon as you

receive this letter. I decided to contact you as you

have products of interest in your part of the world

where we can invest our own percentage to avoid

peoples awarenessas we are civil servants.


Note that we can conclude this operation within ten

banking days.Please keep this very confidential for

obvious security reasons.


Contact me for more information, all confirmable

before you apply if you want. Trusting to hear from

you shortly for a detailed information which are

confirmable before you can makeup your mind to

apply.If however,you are not interested,do let me know

by returm maill too as I will not contact anybody else

until I hear from you.


May God be with you.


Yours faithfully


Allison Obi


please reply to allisonobi_1962@myway.com






- allison obi

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