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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)
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • raymonddaniel405@yahoo.com.cn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?gb2312?q?General=20Auditor?= <raymonddaniel405@yahoo.com.cn>
Reply-To: nigerdeltaauditor@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 23:58:18 +0800 (CST)
Subject: I look forward to your prompt


ÎÒÓÐÒ»¸öеĵçÓʵØÖ·ÁË£¡ÄúÏÖÔÚ¿ÉÒÔ·¢µç×ÓÓʼþ¸øÎÒµ½£ºraymonddaniel405@yahoo.com.cn

Dear Sir/Madam,


I am Mr. Raymond Daniel, the Auditor General, Niger Delta Development Commission. In the course of my auditing, I discovered a floating funds in an account which was opened in 1990 belonging to a dead foreigner name (Witheld) a national of your country. I decided to track his last name over the Internet to locate any member of his family hence I got in contact with you.


I want to move the sum of $18.5M from Niger Delta Development Commission in his account to abroad. I am therefore write to ask you that you quietly partner with me and providing an account or setting up a new one


that will serve the purpose of receiving this fund. Even an empty account can also serve as long as there will be honesty to me till the end of the deal and I hope you will never let me down. After going through his records and files, I discovered that:


(1)No one has operated this account since 1993;


(2)He died without an heir; hence the money has been floating.


(3)No other person knows about this account and there was no known


beneficiary. AND IF I DO NOT REMIT THIS MONEY URGENTLY, IT WOULD BE FORFEITED FOR NOTHING.


This money can only be approved to you legally as far you are welling to stands as his NEXT OF KIN. Hence I am contacting you. I will require your urgent reply so that I give you the next step. Kindly forward your telephone and fax numbers. I am ready to give you the sum of $7,500,000 ($7.5M) for your assistance and partnering with me.I shall unfold Facts about me and my commission as soon as I get your promt response.


I look forward to your prompt.


Best Regards,


Mr.Raymond Daniel,

Auditor General.



- General Auditor

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