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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:

• 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.
  • olamide10203@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: Ade Olamide <olamide102003@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:18:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Thanks for your response


Dear Amarjit ,

Thanks for your response to my letter of proposal to you. I am very happy that you have responded urgently, sorry for the late responce. Be informed that the proposal is not a hoax nor a joke, it is genuine and authentic.I urge you to follow up with the transaction relentlessly to enable us actualise it soon.
The deceased is a foreigner and was a customer to my bank, but unfortunately the man and the entire family lost their lifes in an accident ,left with no body to claim his balance of $12.5m and some fraction left in the bank before the death.
As a senior staff in the bank ,I was mandated with some other officials in the bank to further more and look for the relative of Morris Tompson (Deceased), I decided to contact you as a foreigner to stand as the Next of Kin to Late Morris Tompson so that the $12.5M will be remitted into your account as the rightful beneficiary, at the end, both of us will share the funds as stated in my first email to you.
Before contacting you I made sure the funds exist.The transaction is very legal as we are going to get all approvals relating to international money transfer from the authorities concerned.
The most important thing in this transaction, is you asking me questions where ever you are not cleared at every given time and also calling me on the phone at least ones a day for progress reports.
Please send to me your contact cell\Private number for effective communication.It is very important that you send me your full names.
To commence proper into this transfer ,you have to send to me urgently your Full name and address.I will then submit application in your name to the bank for the transfer of the $12.5m.
Due to the nature of this transaction ,Please,keep this deal to yourself untill the fund is transferred to your account,please.
Henceforth, send all emails meant for me to this my confidential email
address mail to: ( olamide10203@yahoo.com
Waiting to hear from you again urgently.


Ade Olamide.



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