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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "abidjan" (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.
  • info_okoye@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Paul Antonio" <paul_antonio2007@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: info_okoye@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:56:32 +0200
Subject: Proposal


STRICTLY FOR YOU!!!
My name is Mr Paul Antonio, a Banker with one of the leading banks here in Spain Europe. I am the personal accounts manager to Mr. Andreas Schranner (of blessed memory) was a property consultant to an oil servicing Company based in Abidjan Cote Ivoire, My client was involved in the ill-fated crash of July 30Th. 2000, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife Maria, their daughter eich and her husband-Christian and their Two children perished in the Air France Concorde New York bound flight; please click here to confirm the incidence: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of the extended relatives but has been unsuccessful, hence I contacted you of particular interest is this huge deposit with our Bank here, where the deceased has an account valued at about (4.2million EURO) The Management of the Bank has issued a notice last Friday hence none of the relatives could be traced they are going to declare the account unserviceable And thereby send the funds to the Government treasury by the end of the year in line with after 5yrs. un serviced account law of the Country.
I want to seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account valued can be paid to you and then you and can share the account proceed, What I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through, I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of the law. If you can handle this, reach me now through this email account: for further clarification.
Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation, and please keep this proposal as confidential
Best regards
Mr Paul Antonio
NB Please reply on this email address . info_okoye@yahoo.com <mailto:info_okoye@yahoo.com

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