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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • board_234@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "board_234 nige" <board_234nige@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: board_234@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:46:54 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BECAUSE OF ITS NATURE

FROM THE DESK OF:
MR JOHN OZARA
CITY EXPRESS BANK PLC.
PLOT 122, MARINA,
LAGOS-NIGERIA
email:board_234@yahoo.com

ATTENTION:
FRIEND,

I AM MR JOHN OZARA, THE MANAGER, BILLS AND EXCHANGE AT THE
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY EXPRESS BANK PLC. I AM
WRITING THIS LETTER TO ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND COOPERATION TO CARRY
OUT THIS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY IN MY DEPARTMENT. WE DISCOVERED AN
ABANDONED SUM OF $10.5,000.000.00 (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
USD DOLLARS) IN AN ACCOUNT THAT BELONGS TO ONE OF OUR FOREIGN
CUSTOMERS
WHO DIED ALONG WITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY OF A WIFE AND TWO
CHILDREN IN
NOVEMBER 1997 IN A PLANE CRASH.
SINCE WE HARD OF HIS
DEATH, WE HAVE
BEEN EXPECTING.HISNEXT-OF-KIN TO COME OVER AND PUT
CLAIMS FOR HIS
MONEY AS THE HEIR, BECAUSE WE CANNOT RELEASE THE FUND
FROM HIS ACCOUNT
UNLESS SOMEONE APPLIES FOR CLAIM AS THE NEXTOF-KIN TO
THE DECEASED AS
INDICATED IN OUR BANKING GUIDELINES. UNFORTUNATELY,
NEITHER THEIR
FAMILY MEMBER NOR DISTANT RELATIVE HAS EVER APPEARED TO
CLAIM THE SAID
FUND.
UPON THIS DISCOVERY, I AND OTHER OFFICIALS IN
MY DEPARTMENT
HAVE AGREED TO MAKE BUSINESS WITH YOU AND RELEASE THE
TOTAL AMOUNT INTO
YOUR ACCOUNT AS THE HEIR OF THE FUND SINCE NO ONE
CAME FOR IT OR
DISCOVERED HE MAINTAINED ACCOUNT WITH OUR BANK,
OTHERWISE THE FUND WILL
BE RETURNED TO THE BANKS TREASURY AS UNCLAIMED
FUND. WE HAE AGREED THAT
OUR RATIO OF SHARING WILL BE AS STATEDTHUS:
20% FOR YOU AS FOREIGN
PARTNER,75% FOR US THE OFFICAIALS IN MY
DEPARTMENT AND 5% FOR THE
SETTLEMENT OF ALLLOCAL AND FOREIGN EXPENSES
INCURRED BY US
AND YOU
DURING THE COURSE OF THIS BUSINESS.
UPONTHE
SUCESSFUL COMPLETION OF
THIS TRANSFER, I AND ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES WILL
COME TO YOUR COUNTRY AND
MIND OUR SHARE. IT IS FROM OUR 60% WE INTEND
TO IMPORT AGRICULTURAL
MACHINERIES INTO MY COUNTRY AS A WAY OF
RECYCLING THE FUND. TO COMMENCE
THIS TRANSACTION, WE REQUIRE YOU TO
IMMEDIATELY INDICATE YOUR INTEREST
BY A RETURN E- MAIL AND ENCLOSEYOUR
FOLLOWING INFORMATION BELOW.
Your
Full Name:
___________________________
Your Complete Address:
_____________________________
Name of City of Residence:
____________________
Date of Birth (Day/Month/Year):
____________________
Direct Telephone Number:_____________________
mobile ____________________________
Number:
_______________________________________
Fax Number:
____________________________________
NOTE ALSO, THIS TRANSACTION MUST
BE KEPT STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL BECAUSE OF ITS NATURE.

I LOOK FORWARD TO
RECEIVING YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE.

MR JOHN OZARA

_________________________________________________________________
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