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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:
  • "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)
  • "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.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "sam eke" <sameke117@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:42:01 +0100
Subject: PROFITBALE BUSINESS PROPOSAL FROM

PROFITBALE BUSINESS PROPOSAL FROM
MR.sameke THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE,
STANDARD TRUST BANK (STB).
LAGOS NIGERIA. WEST AFRICA .

Dear Partner,

I presumed that all is well with you and your family. Please let this do
not be a surprise proposal to you because i got your contact information
from the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to
contact you on this magintude and lucrative transaction for our future
survival in life. Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i
decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.

I am Mrsameke Ofor THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE OF FOREIGN REMITTANCE
UNIT of our bank and i have had the intent to contact you over this
financial transaction worth the sum of NINTEEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($19,300,000.00 ) for our success.This is an
abandoned sum that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died
along with his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years
ago.

Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was
arranging the old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit
to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of
the year against 2007.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and
regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed
till the period of 5 years started from the date when the beneficiary died,
the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund. As an
honour and advantage bestowed to our foreign customers base on the rules
guiding our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a Nigeria
citizen, you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a
foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the
deceased.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for
the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank
account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, { 39% } being (
US$7,527,000.00) will be your share in respect of the account
provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into
your bank account,{ 52% } being (US$10,036,000.00) will be my share being
the co-odinator of the transaction while the rest { 9% } being
(US$1,737,000.00) will be shared to the respectable Organisations Centers
such as Charity Organisation, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled
people in the World.

If you are really sure of your trustworthy, accountability and
confidentiality on this transaction, contact me and agree that you
will not change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund have
gotten into your account. Besides you should not entertain any fear because
i am sure of the success as an insider in the bank ok.

Please reply with the assurance, include your full name and home
address,private mobile telephone and fax numbers necessary for
facilitate an easy communication in this transaction. As soon as you reply,
i will let you know the next step to follow in order to finalize this
transaction immediately. I expect your urgent response.

Yours sincerely,
Mr.sameke

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