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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:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "million united states 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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "mrmicheal"<mrmichealojo@myway.com>
Reply-To: mrmichealojo@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:50:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Bank(Pls treat as urgent)










From: Mr. Michael Ojo Regional General Manager Banque Internationale pour Commerce et L'Industrie ( www.bicici.org ) BICICI BANK. Subject: Transfer of U.S$36,000,000.00Million I am Mr. Michael Ojo, I am the Regional General Manager and heads the Foreign Operations Department of Banque Internationale pour Commerce et L'Industrie (BICICI BANK). I seek your sincere co-operation to actualise the successful transfer of the above mentioned funds. During auditing we discovered a sum of USD36,000,000.00 (Thirt Six Million United States Dollars) in dormant account that belongs to a foreign customer Mr. Abram Assaf who died along his family in an auto crash. Since past three years we confirmed Mr. Abram Assaf 's death, nobody has applied for claims as next of kin or relation to the deceased as stipulated in our banking guidelines. It is therefore upon this discovery that I am making this business proposal to you in collaboration with the Auditor-General,
to transfer the funds to you as the beneficiary for subsequent disbursement between us since nobody will come for it and I do not want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. On confirmation of these funds U.S$36,000,000.00 into your nominated bank account, we will come to your country to meet with you for immediate disbursement of the funds between of us. Should you consider our proposal, I will instruct you on what you should do for the transfer of these funds to your nominated bank account. Endeavor to send to me your private telephone number to enable us open-up communication with you immediately. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is risk-free because we are transferring these funds legally and considering also my position in the bank you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements will be perfected for the transfer which will take about five bank working days upon your formal submission of an
application letter of claim for an Irrevocable Standing Payment Order(ISPO). Best regards, Mr. Michael Ojo

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