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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand 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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +2348056279126 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "john johnson" <mr-johnson-001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrjohnson1x@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:34:29 -0500
Subject: urgent attention

Dear Friend,
How are you doing with your family? Hope fine, Please pay attention and
understand my reason of contacting you today through this email, my name is
Mr John Johnson, Manager of International Relation with Access Bank of
Nigeria limited. In my department, during the Auditing of the year 2006, I
discovered an abounded sum of US$9.2M that belongs to our Late Mr. Morris
Thompson, an American prominent man who unfortunately lost his life in the
plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which crashed on January 31st
2000. You may read more about the crash on visiting this C.N.N News internet
website below.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

I desperately need your assistance to secure and move this huge sums of
money left behind by my late client to the tune of $9.200.000.00, (Nine
Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) out from access bank of
Nigeria to your own account, he executed contract through Department of Work
and Housing here in Nigeria and the mentioned money above is his money left
in our bank before his death. Meanwhile, for your smoothness of this
transaction, I will pay you 50% (US$4,600,000.00) of the total sum for your
co-operation in this matter. If you know that you are interested and capable
to handle this business transaction, come up with the information's showed
below: -

1. Your Full Name:
2. Your Contact Cell Phone Number:
3. Your Age:
4. Your Sex:
5. Your Occupations:
6. Your Country and City:

As soon as possible all these information's is submitted to me, I will
immediately draft an application form with all your information's and send
back to you, so that you will proceed with the transaction by sending the
form to access bank of Nigeria for the transferring of this fund into your
account. My Direct Cell Phone Number +2348056279126

Yours
Faithfully,
Mr. John Johnson.

_________________________________________________________________
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