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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:
  • "a project that will be very beneficial to both of us" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348036688554 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • kolawill003@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Kola Williams" <kolawilliams15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kolawill003@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:42:35 +0000
Subject: Good Day (PLEASE DO REPLY A.S.A.P)

Good Day

Please, I have the honor and confidence to introduce you to this business in
view of the fact that you are trustworthy and reliable. I am Dr. Kola
Williams. I work in the Audit Department of WEMA BANK PLC LAGOS NIGERIA.
Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and
through this media. Please I am contacting you for a real business
transaction, which I will like to discuss about maturely.

I hope my letter will not embarrass you since we have not had any previous
communication or encounter, though business is all about trust and
opportunity. I hope you will read this email with all the objectivity it
deserves and then react accordingly. I have decided to contact you on a
project that will be very beneficial to both of us based on trust despite
that we have not had any previous meeting and also i want you to know that
my main objectives of contacting you is not based on the fact that you realy
have any relationship with this person but based on trust that i have in
you.

There is an account opened in our bank in 1990 but since 2002 nobody has
operated on this account again. After a private investigation I discovered
that the owner of this account was a director with a contruction company
here in my country by name (Eleme Contruction Co.LTD) - a foreigner by name
(Mr. Zsolt ) was among the people that died in the lagos 2002 bomb blast, he
died without having a beneficiary to this account. My investigation proved
to me also that nobody from the company knows about this account. The amount
contained in this account is US6,950,000.00. It is my wish and intention to
take this fund abroad for investment instead of the bank to have it
transferred into their reserve account for the personal use.

View for incident of the bomb blast

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACOS-64BF8V?OpenDocument

I will need you to set up a new account for this transfer and send to me or
you might se nd an existing account with no fund in it for us to use. We
will use normal banking procedures to transfer the fund legally. I will
bring my position and influence to facilitate transfer immediately by legal
means.What I request is absolute secrecy and confidentiality. And that you
will never disappoint me when fund is transferred to your account. There is
no risk to this business, as we will follow the normal banking procedure.
You are also to furnish me with the following information's for necessary
and legal documentation's before the transfer can be made to your account.

1) YOUR FULL NAMES
2) YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
3) YOUR DIRECT, PERSONAL PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
4) OCCUPATION AND AGE
5) PHOTO PAGE OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVER’S LICENSE.

When this fund is transferred to any account you will provide I will like to
invest my share in any good business which you will advice on in your
country when I come over for my share. Sharing shall be half each but have
in mind that 2% of the total fund will be for refund ofany expenses done by
each party during the process of having this funds moved to your account,
because in business every cent spent counts. Contact me urgently at
kolawill003@yahoo.fr for the way forward or you can all me on my number
+2348036688554.

Sincerely,

Dr. Kola Williams

NB: PLEASE HAVE IN MIND THAT THIS IS NOT WAY TO GET YOUR INFORMATION'S FOR
ANY OTHER REASON BUT FOR THE PORPOSE FOR WHICH I HAVE STATED ABOVE.

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