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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • danielmusa@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DANIEL MUSA" <d.musa02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: danielmusa@myway.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:50:10 +0000
Subject: REPLY ME

Dear Engel,

I am Mr Daniel Musa, i work with a bank here in Nigeria (Lagos),and
istumbled on an accountthat has been dormant for sometime now and from my
investigations the owner of the account that is my late client who
bears the same last name like you do (Pitt Engel) died along with his family
in a car crash On the 21st of April 2001.

I am contacting you to assist me in repatriating the money left behind by
this late client .do help me,before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposit were lodged which is where
i work.

My employers, where the deceased had an account valued at about $3.5 million
dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated within the next fourteen official working days.

Based on this development i need you to come forward and stand in as the
beneficairy, so that the proceeds of this account valued at $3.5million
dollars can be paid to you and then you and i can share the money, 60%
to me and 40% to you.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal
through.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in
touch with me by my private email:

danielmusa@myway.com

Regards

Barrister Daniel Musa(Esq).

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