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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)
  • "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.
  • megglaw@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "magaret" <magaretgiwa004@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:40:35 -0500 (EST)
Subject: BELLVIEW AIRLINE FLIGHT 210 CRASH: WHO KILLED MY HUSBAND???










Dear Friend, I write this e-mail with all humility and every seriousness of heart; believing that you will be the instrument God will use to help me and my two daughters out of the predicament we are currently faced with.I am Mrs. Margaret Olufunmilayo Giwa, wife of late Chief Rufus Giwa who died on Saturday, October 22, 2005 in the ill-fated Boeing 737 Bellview Airline that crashed at Lisa Village, near Lagos, Nigeria which claimed all 117 passengers and crew members on-board.My predicament started with the tradition of property-grabbing on my late husband's properties by his family. What followed after was that I and my two daughters were asked to vacate our home by my late husband's brothers so that they can absorbed with all his properties barely a month after his death, relying on tribal tradition and custom of their clan mainly because I did not bear a male child for my late husband before his death whom they believed would have inherited his estates. This suddenly
destitute me as a widow and had to scrambled to get from a member of our church who through her human kindness gave I and my kids an apartment in her residence. Moreso, the Management of Bellview Airline, owners of the crashed fleet has agreed to pay the sum of a $100,000.00 (Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) as compensation to each family of the victims but surprisingly, my late husband's family went ahead to lay claims of the money to themselves without allowing us (I and my two daughters) benefit of it.As the beneficiary next-of-kin to my late husband's Domiciliary Account he operated with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. before his death, I was fortunate to have vacated the house with the vital documents relating to the account which had a closing balance of $9,500,000.00 (Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars). To be sincere with you, I would not be able to make use of this funds here due to the forces surrounding me concerning my late husband's family hence the
reason why I am soliciting for your assistance to help me and my children out of this situation before my late husband's family get to know of our whereabout so that they won't come and equally seized the documents to the claim of the funds from us.I strongly believe that the only way I can secure the funds for myself and my children is to have the funds transfered to an overseas bank account and after you must have received and confirmed the funds in your account, myself and my children would then make appropriate travelling arrangements to come and meet with you in your country. I have mapped out and agreed that if you can help me out of this predicament, I promise to give you 10% out of the total amount. Also, you would kindly advise me on any lucrative business venture(s) one could invest on in your country since we (myself and the kids) intend to live there forever so that we can have something substantial to lay our back-on in the nearest future.For a comprehensive
information on the controversial exit of my husband, you can get the full import of the story on ThisDay Newspapers, one of Nigeria's dailies on Page 1 (front page) of Monday, October 24th, 2005 edition at ThisDay's website: www.thisdayonline.com or any other Nigerian newspaper or newsmagazine of the same date or thereafter.I will immensely remain grateful to you if you can help me and my daughters out of this predicament. May Almighty God bless you abundantly! Sincerely yours, Mrs. Margaret O. GiwaAlternative E-mail: megglaw@yahoo.ca

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