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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "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 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.
  • +2348069590860 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR PETER OKAFOR" <peter_okafor_012@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: peter_okafor_sbn@yahoo.co.in
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:22:37 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME IMMEDIATELY

From:The Desk Of Mr Peter Okafor.
International Relation,s Manager
STANDARD BANK NIGERIA,PLC.
Owerri,Imo state.
Nigeria.

Greetings Well Beloved,

I am Mr Peter Okafor. the International Relation's manager at the foreign
remittance Department of (STANDARD BANK NIGERIA,PLC) I am writing to seek
your intrest over a transaction. In my department we discovered an abandoned
sum of $9.2m(Nine Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollar) .In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in a Car accident in August 2003.

Since we got information about his Death,as the International Relation's
Manager of the bank I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and
claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it
as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or
relation died alongside with him at the Car accident leaving nobody behind
for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after Five years, the money will be transferred
into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner from United State of America.

We agree that 50 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, 50 %
would be for me .I will be waiting for your immediate response to enable me
send to you the copy of his death certificate from the hospital after the
accident, deposit certificate issued and signed by our bank when he
deposited the us$9.2m and my personal identity.This transaction is very easy
and simple,and it is 100% risk free

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter with
the email address above.Trusting to hear from you immediately.Call me on my
number +234-8069590860

Regards,
Mr Peter Okafor.

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