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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)
  • "your urgent reply" (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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +2348077530988 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Dean Ama <dean@amadean.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:47:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: AN URGENT MUTUAL OFFER(urgent response pls)



Dear Friend,
I write with utmost confidence that you will be able to assist
in this business/financial offer of mutual interest.
I got your contact from an internet date base after a
careful and prayerful search.
Consequent upon the death of my boss ,Chief Mrs.Stella
Obasanjo,first lady of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria,who died last year 2005, in a spanish
hospital after complications from a surgery operation.
(You can confirm this from the website AIRED from the
BBC.NEWS.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4368806.stm)
I am soliciting your immediate assistance to get the bonded
funds we were to clear from the Financial Trust/security firm
based in EUROPE before her surgery that eventually resulted
in her death on the 22nd of October,2005.
The total amount of the funds is Eight million,Two
Hundred Thousand,United States of America
Dollars(USD$8,200,000.00)
I decided to take up this deal and claim this fund at this
point in time because I have watched and monitored closely
since her death, nobody has knowledge of this fund deposit and
nobody has asked me about this particular deposit even when members
of her family has asked of other deposits and other important information
concerning her financial transactions.I am also favoured with the deal
because and I am the principal and only witness to this deposit.
Please let me know what this funds can be invested on in your
country so that I can give you details.On the hand
if you are not interested in such long term business
relationship,I will give you 30% of the total sum for
your involvement since you are going to act as my proxy and the
present beneficiary.
I am giving you full assurance that this transaction is 100%
risk free as this fund is almost personal fund and I have the original
documents as proof as her former personal assistance.
Send your personal detail information i.e full names,full
address,telephone and fax numbers to enhance communications.
Waiting for your urgent reply.
My kind Regards,
Dr. Dean Ama
D/L:+234-8077530988
NOTE:I have in mind to invest in Real Estates and Landed properties .You can
suggest
other lucrative areas.
Response should be sent to my private mail box amadean@o2.pl

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