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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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: jasher@e-places.net
Reply-To: jasher@omaninfo.com
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:33:48 -0500
Subject: Get Back To Me



John Asher
Manager, Internal Audit/
Foreign Remittance Dept,
Union Bank Plc,
36 Broad Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos.


Attn Sir/Madam,


My name is John Asher. An account officer to late Mr. Craig Jones who
use to worked for an oil firm in Nigeria. Mr Craig Jones a well known
Philanthropist,before he died, he made a WILL stating that $15.2M
(Fifteen million, two hundred thousand U.S. dollars only) should be
donated to any Philanthropist of our choice oversea and your email was
randomly pickedas the beneficiary of the said funds.


We have made a random draw your e-mail address was picked as the
beneficiary to this Will. I am particularly interested in securing
this money from the Bank, because they have issued a notice
instructing me been the account officer to produce the beneficiary of
this Will within two weeks or else the money will be credited to the
Government treasury as per law here. It is my utmost desire to execute
theWILL of my late client as was instructed when he was a life.

You are required to contact me immediately to start the process of
sending this money to any of your designated official account or your
off-shore account. I urge you to contact me immediately for further
details bearing in mind that the Bank has given us a date limit,Please
act fast.


Please include your phone and fax numbers as you are replying this
mail.


Congratulation as I await your urgent reply through my mail.


Yours faithfully,
John Asher

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