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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:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +2348035727489 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "kom ken" <ogyname@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: martines_001@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:46:23 +0000
Subject: next of kin

Good day,

I am an account officer to one of our Expatriate deceased client Mr Henry
Windt who died in an accident in the year 2002 with the wife and only
daughter along Benin-Onitsha Road.And since his death,no one has shown up as
the next of kin.I wish to make a private enquires if you are in any way
related to our deceased client who bears the same surname with
you.However,he has with us adomicilliary account with an outstanding deposit
of a reasonable amount.

Please sir,your immediate response would be appreciated as we need to close
his file with us before the monies would be referred to our bank's treasury
and tagged UNCLAIMED as stipulated by our banking Laws and Regulations.
I await your response soon.
Faithfully yours,
larry malaki

CITIBANK NIGERIA
1 IDOWU TAYLOR STREET

VI/LAGOS

TELEPHONE+234-8035727489

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