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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)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "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.
  • umaru_alkaleri0213@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "umaru_alkaleri" <umaru_alkaleri@terra.com.mx>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:55:49 -0600
Subject: Treat As Urgent Transaction


ZENITH BANK (NIG) PLC.
Plot 94 Ajose
Adeogun Street, Victoria
Island, Lagos, Nigeria

Dear Sir/Madam
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this
is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well
at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you by e-mail due to
the urgency of this transaction. Let me start by first introducing myself
properly to you. I am MR.UMARU ALKALERI, the Manager headquarter Zenith
Bank of Nigeria PLC, Lagos. I came to know of you in my private search
for areliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential
transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a
foreign account requiring maximum confidence. I am not too really sure if you are my long lost contact whom I am trying to reach, but in anyway, please do
take this message with a good heart and report back to me if you are not the
person I think you are. I would explain more later.
THE PROPOSITION: A foreigner, late Engineer Ronald Moore, an Oil
Merchant / contractor with the federal Government of Nigeria, until his
death two years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at
Zenith Bank PLC. Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$19.5M (
nineteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which
the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for alms
and ammunition at a military war college here inNigeria.Fervent valuable
efforts are being made by the Zenith Bank to get in touch with any of the Moore's family or relatives but all have proved to no avail. It is because of the
perceived possibility of not going to be able to locate any of late
Engr. Ronald Moore's next of kin (he had no known wife and children) that the management under the influence of our Chairman, board of directors, Retired Major General Adamu Bello,that an arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE" and then be subsequently donated to the Trust Fund for Alms and Ammunition which will further enhance the courses of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative development, myself and some of my trusted colleagues here at the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as late Engr. Ronald Moore's next of kin so that the fund, USD$19.5M would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. For your assistance, your
commission would be 30%. 10% has been set aside for expenses while the
rest would be for my colleagues and myself. If this proposal is OK. By
you and you do not wish to take advantage of the trust we hope to bestow on you.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

N/B THIS FUND HAS BEING LIFTED OUT FROM HERE TO A FOREIGN SECURITYCOMPANY THROUGH A DIPLOMATIC CORRIER SARVICE PASSAGE.THE FUND IS PAKECKED IN
THREE METAL BOXES BUT THE CONTENT OF WHAT WE HAVE IN THE BOXES UNKNOWN TO THEM.

kindly forward your reply to this email address
umaru_alkaleri0213@yahoo.fr


Best Regards,
Mr.Umaru Alkaleri.
Manager

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