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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:
  • "my direct telephone number" (i.e. "call me on my cellphone at the Internet cafe where we scammers hang out")
  • "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.
  • nationa_petroleum_corp@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Engr.Funsho Kupolokun" <nationa_petroleum_corp@yahoo.it>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:27:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY

Engr.Funsho Kupolokun
ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT
National Petroleum Investments and Management Services
(NAPIMS)
8 - 10 Bayo Kuku Road,
Ikoyi, Lagos.
Tel: 234 806 778 3066
E-mail: nationa_petroleum_corp@yahoo.it

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,(NNPC)

ATTENTION: Wilburn Holtzer,

REFERENCE TO YOUR MAIL DATED ON 25TH 2006 SETEMBER.
THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT I HAVE DIGESTED THE MAIL YOU SENT TO ME AND I AM READY TO DO BUSINESS WITH YOU, IF YOU ARE READY TO CO-OPERATE WITH ME. I HAVE EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO YOU IN MY PROPOSAL, YOU ARE ADVISE TO DIGEST IT PROPERLY AND FUNISH ME WITH THE WHOLE REQUIRED INFORMATIONS FROM YOU, SO THAT WE WILL COMMENCE ACTION AND ON THE TRANSACTION IMMIDIATELY.
FURTHER MORE, YOU ARE ADVISE TO GET BACK TO ME THROUGH MY DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER 234-806-778-3066 FOR MORE CLERITIFICATION.

I WILL BE EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM YOU URGENTLY. SO THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS OUR SELVES BY PHONE, BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAY’S BY THEIR FRUITH WE SHALL KNOW THEM, I AM DEALING WITH YOU AS A BROTHER NOT EVEN A FRIEND, BECAUSE BEFORE I CONTACTED YOU I PRAYED OVER IT AND GOD REVIEWED YOU TO ME AND I HAVE RELIVED ON YOU, PLEASE DO NOT ANTICIPATE TO DISAPPOINT ME BECAUSE I HAVE REPOSED ALL MY CONFIDENCE IN YOU. AM A MAN WHO WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP FROM A STAUNCH CHRISTIAN FAMILY.

FOR NOW, I BELIEVE IN YOU BECAUSE THE SAME BIBLE SAY’S BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO DID NOT SEE BUT BELIEVE WITH THIS I RELY ON YOU.

I LOOK FORWARD TO HEAR FROM YOU URGENTLY.

YOURS BROTHER
ENGR. FUNSHO KUPOLOKUN

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