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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:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "hundred thousand u.s dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • mrs_okadigbo2@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Margery Okadigbo"<mrsokadigbo1@myway.com>
Reply-To: mrs_okadigbo2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:08:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Please onfirm the receipt of my mail










From: Mrs.Margery OkadigboMy Dearest,Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. It is my great pleasure introducing my self to you, I am Mrs. Margery Okadigbo, widow of the Late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo former Nigerian Senate president who died as a result of Political set-up (Assassination).You can view the link on how my beloved husband was killed.http://www.buhari2003.orghttp://www.usafricaonline.com/chubaokadigbo.chido2003.htmlI therefore decided to contact you in confidence so that I can be able to move out the sum of US $ 12.5 million (Twelve million, five hundred thousand U.S Dollars) which was secretly sealed in a security company owned by a Briton. I Margery Okadigbo personally therefore appeal to you for your urgent assistance to move this money into your country where I believe it will be safe in your own Account since I cannot leave the country due to my health condition and the restriction of
movement imposed on me and members of my family by the Nigerian government headed by OLUSEGUN OBASANJO.I hereby advise you to kindly notify me by ,Email: mrs_okadigbo2@yahoo.co.uk Your full details, private telephoneand fax numbers respectively, for further guidelines and procedure only if you accept my proposition. Upon the receipt of your acceptance to assist me, Barr. Branco Rafael shall arrange with you for a face-to-face meeting outside in order to liaise with you towards the effective completion of this transaction if it is required.However, all arrangement has been in place and I want you to be assured that all necessary arrangement for a hitch free transaction has been concluded by Barr. Branco. Conclusively I have decided to discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for the transaction with you on receipt of your mail which .All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimatearrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please reply urgently and treat with absolute confidentiality and sincerity for I am a widow under restrictions.Best regardsMrs Margery OkadigboEmail, mrs_okadigbo2@yahoo.co.uk



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