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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)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • ovieonline_tomsin@yahoo.com.vn (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ovie tomsin" <ovietomsin20@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:52:48 +0200
Subject: Your reply means alot

FROM:MR.OVIE TOMSIN,
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECT,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
ROYAL TRUST BANK PLC.

Dear Friend,

I am MR OVIE TOMSIN, the director in charge of auditing and accounting
section of Royal Trust Bank Plc Nigeria with due respect and regard. I have
decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very
beneficial to both of us at the end of the said transaction . During
investigation and auditing of this account, my department came across a very
huge sum of money belonging to a deceased customer who died in november 1997
plane crash and the account has been dormant with this Bank without any
claim to the fund in our custody either from his family or relations before
our discovery. Although personally,I keep this information as top secret to
enable the whole plans and idea be profitable and successful during the
course of execution. The said amount was us$15.5M (Fifteen million five
hundred thousand united states dollars).

As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive information through
the international consultant chamber of commerce,organisations,diplomatic
missions and individuals here in Nigeria where I was seaching for a good
reliable contact to do this business with.I was elated when I saw your
address before proposing the business to you. Meanwhile all the whole
arrangement to put claims over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the
deceased,the required approval and transfer of this money to a foreign
account has been put in place. Other directives and needed information will
be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to
assist and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity. In
fact I could have done this deal alone but the need for a foreigner as next
of kin in this project is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Blenniod will not perfectly fit in as his next of kin or
heir and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of
transfer because I work in this same bank.

This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who
will forward claims as the next of kin to the Bank and also present a
foreign account where he will need the money to be transferred into on
his/her request as it may be after due verification and clarification by the
correspondent branch of the bank,where the whole money will be remitted from
to your own designation bank account. I will not fail to inform you that
this transaction is 100% risk free.You have been adviced to keep top secret
as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after I conclude
this transaction with you. I will be monitoring the whole situation here in
the bank until you confirm the money in your account.Which I will eventually
come down to your country for the sharing of the fund according to the
specified percentage as agreed on. All other necessary information will be
sent to you when I hear from you.Stating your interest in this transaction.

Reply me via my private email : ovieonline_tomsin@yahoo.com.vn
Best Regard,
OVIE TOMSIN.

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