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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)
  • "million 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)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +2348035204105 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • dr_ibrahim_4adam@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr IBRAHIM ADAMS" <ibra-adam3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: atta1@canada.com
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:34:42 -0500
Subject: (FROM:DR IBRAHIM ADAMS Urgent Business (Repply Me Immediately)

DR IBRAHIM ADAMS (FCAA)
82 ELOFF STREET CENTRAL
ABUJA,NIGERIA
TEL:234-803-520-4105
Via Email Address: dr_ibrahim_4adam@yahoo.it



ATTEENTATION!

DEAR FRIEND AND PARTNER,

I am DR IBRAHIM ADAMS (FCAA)the chief accountant of African Development
bank (ADB). There is an account open in this bank in 2002 and since 2005
nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old
files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out
urgently it would be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Major General J.O. Agboola , a foreigner, and
a miner at - Military Secretary, a Major General by profession and he died
on 17/9/2006 in Military air crash here in Nigeria.

As you can see click on this
website:http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/NigeriaMilitaryPlaneCrashVictims.html

No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that this General Military Development does not know anything about this
account and the money involved is Thirty Six Million United States Dollars
(US$ 36 Million).

I want us to first transfer US$ 16 Million from this money into your safe
overseas account before the rest. I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only be
approved to any foreign account because the money is in United States
Dollars and the former owner Major General J.O. Agboola is a foreigner too.
I know that this message will come to you as surprise as we don’t
know ourselves before. We will sign an agreement, but be sure that it is
real and a genuine business.


I only got your contact information from the computer; with believe in God
that you will never let me down in this business, considering my position as
a public servant. You are the only person that I have contacted in this
business; so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step
to take immediately. Send also your private telephone and fax numbers
including the full details of your account to be used for the deposit. I
want us to meet face-to-face and sign a binding agreement to bind us
together so that you can receive this money into your account where the fund
will be safe. And I will fly to your country for withdrawal and sharing
and other investment. Meanwhile, I am contacting you because of the need to
involve a foreigner with foreign account and foreign beneficiary. I need
your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is
ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information
of this account, which I will give to you as soon as you indicate your
sincerity to co-operate with me, and capability to handle such amount in
strict confidence and trust according to my instruction and advice for our
mutual benefit because this opportunity may never come again in my life.


I need a truthful and God fearing person in this business because I
don’t want to make a mistake so I need your strong assurance and
trust. With my position in the office I don’t want anything that will
jeopardize my job so I advice that we should make secrecy and
confidentiality our primary working condition, bearing in mind that I am a
public servant. I will also use my position and influence to effect legal
approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate
clearance forms of the ministries and foreign exchange department.


At the conclusion of this business, you will be giving 30% of the total
amount, 65% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred the process of the transfer. I look forward to your earliest
reply.NOTE:That this transction will only take 14 working days to be ready
and can contact me on my Via Email Address: dr_ibrahim_4adam@yahoo.it


Yours sincerely,


Dr IBRAHIM ADAMS (FCAA)
All the best.

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