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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)
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • ferdinandmeyer@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr Ferdinand Meyer" <fmeyer003@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ferdinandmeyer@myway.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:25:21 +0100
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST

Dr. Ferdinand Meyer
General Accounts Officer
Auditing control Unit
Union Bank of Nigeria plc.
17 Marina Street,
Lagos Nigeria
Tel 00234-8035678316


Dear Respectable one,


I must first appologise for not sending this message via a certified mail,It
was due to the urgency of the situation.
I am an accountant with Union Bank of Nigeria plc; my name is Dr.Ferdinand
Meyer, a Banker. I am the Accounts officer to late Engr. (Douglas) a
National of your country, who is a contractor with the DEPARTMENT OF
PETROLEUM RESOURCES VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS. Here in after shall be referred
to as my client.


On 30 JAN 2000, my client, his wife, and their three children were involved
in the Kenya airways flight with registration number 5Y-BEN which departed
from Nairobi to destination Lagos and the all family died in this fatal air
crash on 30 JAN 2000 Since then I have made several inquiries to your
embassy to locate any of my clients extended Relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.


I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by
the bank where these huge deposits were lodged, particularly the UNION BANK
OF NIGERIA plc, where the deceased had an account valued at about ($12
million u s dollars).
The bank has issued a notice to me, unequivocally instructing me to produce
the Next of kin/Beneficiary to the said account within the next ten official
working days.


Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years
now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account
valued at ($12 million US Dollars) can be paid to you and then you and me
Can share the money.40% to me and 40% to you and 10% for any charity
organization in your country. While 10% for unforeseen bottlenecks we might
incur in this transaction for an attorney will be contracted to help us
revalidate and notarize all the necessary legal documents that can be used
to back up any claim we may make.


All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law.


I will send you a copy of my international passport so that you will know
who you are dealing with and also have a sense of belonging

N.B I SINCERELY RECOMMEND YOU SEND YOUR RESPONSE TO MY PRIVATE MAIL BOX FOR
CONFIDENTIAL REASON: ferdinandmeyer@myway.com


Best regards,
Dr. Ferdinand Meyer

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