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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • nationalbank_dubia@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MR VICTOR NGESI. <nationalbank_dubia@Safe-mail.net>
Reply-To: nationalbank_dubia@gawab.com
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:16:20 +0400
Subject: FROM MR VICTOR NGESI, NATIONAL BANK OF DUBAI UAE.


Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Victor Ngesi, The Bill and Exchange Manager at the Foreign
Remittance
Department of National Bank Of Dubai, uae, I have an urgent and very
confidential
business proposition for you.
On october 6, 2002, an American Geologist/Contractor with the Economic
Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), Dr. George W.Brumley From
Atlanta,U.S.A Deposited the sum of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten Million Five
hundred Dollars only) in my bank National Bank Of Dubai UAE, Upon maturity,I 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 contract employers,
the
Economic Community Of West Africa States (ECOWAS) that Dr George
W.Brumley
died in a plane crash with his intire family in Kenya,East Africa in
the
year 2003.
I want you to visit the website below for more information about the
Plane
Crash:
http://www.wral.com/news/2345844/detail.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
I therefore made further investigation and discovered that In the bank
form
for next of kin, George W.Brumley Before his death filled his wife JEAN
BRUMLEY as his next of kin but unfortunately, the wife died with him
along
others and therefore, there is nobody left behind to claim the fund of
Dr.
George Brumley as his next of kin that was why I contacted you and
proposed
it as a deal between us.
Meanwhile, Official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in
my
Bank as the next of kin was in the name of his wife. Based on that, No
one
will ever come forward to claim it.
According to the Dubai, united arab emirates foreign and defense
affairs,at the expiration
of 3 (Three) years,such funds will revert to the ownership of the dubai,
Government for financing military operations,such as purchasing of
arms
and ammunitions for the military.
In order to avert this negative development, I will like to seek for
your
permission as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Dr.George
W.Brumley
so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not be use for
financing
weapons which will further enhance the courses of war in the world in
general.
The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio
of 55%
for me and 40% for you and 5% for Expenses Incurred in the course of
the
transaction.There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this
transaction will be done accordingly and with my position as the bill
and
exchange guarantees the successful execution of this transaction.
If you are interested, please reply immediately through my private bank.
e-mail
address: by indicating your bank name and address, Account number,
and your private phone number,
fax number for easy communication. Upon your response, I shall then
provide
you with more details and that will help you understand the
transaction and
also give you the text of the application to fill and send to the bank.
Finally, You should observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured
that
this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I
shall
require your assistance to invest my share in your country.
PLEASE REPLY TO MY PRIVATE E-MAIL : nationalbank_dubia@gawab.com or you can contact me on this number: +971 50 4367964.
Anxiously Awaiting for your urgent response.
Thanks and best regards to your family.
MR VICTOR NGESI.

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