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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:
  • "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)
  • "a reliable and reputable person to handle this" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.
  
• 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.
  • kennedy_john_uba@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "john kennedy" <j_kennedy_7@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: john_kennedy_uba@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:00:43 +0000
Subject: Re:GREETINGS/URGENT ATTENTION.

UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA, PLC
Head Office: Lagos, Nigeria
UBA House 57, MARINA,
P.O. Box 2406, Lagos.
Fax: 01- 4748626
Telex: MIBANK NG 28493
287196, 11489 and 28990
Tel: +234-01-33746533


Hello Dear,

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I am assuring that this is real, genuine and also 100% risk
free.

I am Mr. John Kennedy a British National, the present Director of
Accounts/Audit Department UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC (Formal Bank of Africa
Plc) Head Office: Lagos, Nigeria. I came to know you in my private search
for a reliable and reputable person to handle this Confidential Transaction,
which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account
requiring maximum confidence.

MY PROPOSITION:
During my Audit/Account exercise i discovered an abandoned sum of
US$28,500,000.00 (Twenty Eight million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) in an account that belonging to one of our customers (Senator. Paul
Wellstone) who died along with his wife and entire family on
Sunday,December29,2002.

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to
lay claims for this money as the heir. The United Bank of Africa Plc cannot
release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines,
unfortunately, no family member nor relative has ever appeared to claim the
said fund.

Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as next of
kin to the deceased so that the funds (Twenty Eight million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) can be released and paid into your account
as the beneficiary's next of kin otherwise the fund will be returned to
treasury as unclaimed funds and will be subsequently confiscated by the
Nigerian government at the expiration of five year duration. Document to
enable you receive this funds will be carefully worked out. Please
acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavor by furnishing me with the following;

1. Your name and address
2. Direct Mobile/Telephone and fax numbers.
3. Age and Occupation.


I await your urgent mail via my private box at:kennedy_john_uba@yahoo.co.uk

Best Regards,

Mr. John Kennedy
Director Accounts/Audit Dept
United Bank of Africa Plc.

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