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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:
  • "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.
  • patrickmomoh_uba@yahoo.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Mr.=20Patrick=20Momoh?=" <patrickmomoh_uba@yahoo.com.br>
Reply-To: patrickmomoh_uba@gawab.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:42:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: INTRODUCTION


Meu novo endereço de e-mailAgora você pode me contactar através do e-mail: patrickmomoh_uba@yahoo.com.br

good day to you!!

- Mr. Patrick Momoh Union Bank Nigeria Plc. Apapa Branch Lagos-Nigeria Good day to you !! I know this mail might come as a suprise to you but the truth is that i got your contact details through an independent search over the Internet for a relieble person, coupled with my deep interest to invest in your country hence i decided to contact and solicit your mutual assistance. I am Mr. Patrick Momoh , Branch Manager, Union Bank Nigeria Plc. of Nigeria. In January 6th 2003, Mr Albert Alex Vaughn, a consultant /contractor with Maersk Construction Company made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit, valued at US$13,500,000.00 (Thirteen Million, Five Hundred United States Dollars), for twelve (12) calender months in my Bank 's branch. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contractor employers that Mr Albert Alex Vaughn died in an automobile accident. On further investigation,I found out that he di
ed without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr Albert Alex Vaughn, did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper-work in my Bank. This sum of US$ 13,500,000.00 is still in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. In accordance with the Nigerian Federal Law, at the expiration of 4 (four) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government, if nobody applies as the Next of kin to claim the fund. Consequently, I shall present you as a foreign partner to stand in as the next of kin to the Late Mr Albert Alex Vaughn so that you and i can benefit from the fruits of this old man's labour to enhance Humanitarian Organisation World wide. Upon acceptance, I shall send to you either by fax or e-mail a scannned copy of the Union Bank Nigeria
Plc.

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