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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:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +23417239284 (Nigeria, landline)

Fraud email example:

From: "Standard Trust Bank Plc" <telexdepartment_standardtrustbnk@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:12:29 +0000
Subject: RE: ACKNOWLEDGMENT LETTER ANGELA SNEED.

STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC.
PLOT 17 SAKAJOJO STREET,
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS - NIGERIA
TEL: 234-1-7239284
FAX: 234-1-7239285

TO: Angela Renee Sneed,
USA.

RE: ACKNOWLEDGMENT LETTER/CLAIM OF YOUR INHERITANCE.

We want you to acknowledge that the presence of your lawyer was received and
the Application Letter has been received by us and also your lawyer
Barrister Tunde Johnson sent the necessary document that will approve that
you are the beneficiary to Late Mr. Pitt Sneed fund to us.

We want to inform you that all the document that shows that the fund was
deposited in our bank has been received and this indicates that you are
aware about the fund that is going to be transferred to you as the
beneficiary of the fund.

Regarding to the transfer of the fund, We will like to notify you that upon
the management and board of the bank in proceedings of transfer of fund, we
want you to know that the provision of some important documents are needed
and required to be provided by you as prove been the beneficiary of the fund
before the fund will be transfer to avoid problems in the due course of
transfer of fund. The requested document is;

CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT OF MR. PITT SNEED'S FUND.
DEATH CERTIFICATE OF LATE MR. PITT SNEED.

This document gives you the full right that the fund belongs to you and you
are the full beneficiary of the fund and in this document that you are going
to provide you are going to be the person that will send it to us as prove
been the beneficiary of fund. Upon the receipt of the requested document
above, the bank will be honored to make the transfer of the fund within
three (3) working days.

The receipt of your response is awaited.

Sincerely.

Mr. Mark Johnson.
Director Of Operation.

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