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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +27737405700 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kunle Fayose" <kunlefayose3@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: kunlefayos@yahoo.es
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:27:08 +0000
Subject: Cooperate with me for Mutual benefit

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
Compliment, of the season to you and your family.
I am Mr Kunle Fayose the son of the embattled governor of Ekiti State of the federal Republic of Nigeria under this present dispensation of president Olushegun Aremu Obasanjor.
  
My contacting you is divine, during my search for a reliable and reputable person I come across your contact and I have confidence that you will keep this information I want to disclose to you secret and confidential, as it will be beneficial to you as well.
 
Presently my father who is currently in exile in Germany as a result of him opposing the third term agenda of the president Olushegun Aremu Obasanjor, due to the impeachment saga which is not going through due legal process of law as the intention of the president is to forcefully remove him from office and jail him like he did to the former governor of the rich oil state (DELTA STATE) who is still in jail until now.
 
I want to confide in you as instructed by my father to look for a reliable and trust worthy who he can re-transfer the sum of  $37,000,000:00 which is deposited in two different bank 12,000,000:00 in First National Bank of South Africa and the other in 14,000,000:00GBP Lloyd Bank of United Kingdom.
 
As soon as my father successfully escape to Germany he called me from school to traveled down to South Africa with all the information he used in banking the funds, that we should start from South Africa here to first re-transfer the sum of 12,000,000:00 to your account for safe keeping that as soon as we conclude this in three working days I should quickly traveled down to United Kingdom to effect the of the re-transfer of the 14,000,000:00GBP with Lloyd Bank to you too for safe keeping and re-investing the funds into properties as proposed by my father before now.
 
As soon as I confirm the receipt of your reaction to my email and with the assurance that you will not betray the trust I bestow in you I will reach out to my father for all relevant information that bank will need to effect the transfer of 12,000,000:00 from First National Bank of South Africa first before I traveled out of here to United Kingdom For the second face.
 
I will like you to visit the following web pages to read about what had been going on in my country:

1)      http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2006/oct/17/national-17-10-2006-01.htm
2) http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2006/oct/18/national-18-10-2006-01.htm

 Thank you for you time and understanding and I will like you to furnish me with your private telephone number and fax number for easy communication.
Best Regards,
Mr Kunle Fayose
+27 737405700

NB
I will be here in South Africa until the fund here is transferred before I proceed my trip to United Kingdom.

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