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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: yinka balogun <yinkabalogun704@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:15:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Attention to this message


Dear Friend,

My name is Dr Yinka Balogun,the manager, credit and foreign billsdepartment of African Development Bank plc. I am writing inrespect of a foreign customer of my bank with account number14-255-2004/adb/t who perished in a plan crash [Korean AirFlight 01] with the whole passengers aboard on August 6, 1997.Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watchedwith keen interest to see the next of kin but all has provedabortive as no one has come to claim his funds of [Twelve Million,five hundred thousand United States dollars] which hasbeen with my branch for a very long time. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be usedas the next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin.And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay In
view of this I got your contact through a trade journal after realizing that your name and country is similar to the deceased.I will give you 30% of the total.

Upon the receipt of yourresponse, I will send you by e-mail the application and the nextstep to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that thisbusiness is hitch free and that you should not entertain anyfear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized withinfive banking days, after you apply to the bank as relation tothe deceased. When you
receive this letter. Kindly send me e-mail to myprivate e-mail address:yinkabalogun33@yahoo.com.All thisinformation bellow is needed from you to enable me file anapplication in your name as the next of kin to the deceased thenyou apply for the two inheritance documents from the Federalhigh Court Justice of Nigeria here in my courtry, as soon as wehave all the legal documents that is needed from my Bank, thenwe proceed to my Bank for fund transfer.

The bellow information is needed from you

Your full names.................

Home Address.......................

Direct tell number.................

Your age...............

Your occupation...........

Your Private Email Account...........

Regards,

Dr Yinka Balogun



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