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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:
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +2348032721684 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • mr.asrafan101@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dr raf <dr.raf03@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: mr.asrafan101@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 02:34:37 +0100 (BST)
Subject: VERY URGENT


From Dr. Assia Rafan
Uniun Bank Of Nigeria
ILupeju Branch,
Lagos,Nigeria.
+234-803-272-1684.
Mail to:- mr.asrafan101@yahoo.co.uk

I am Dr. Assia Rafan,Branch Manager with Uniun Bank Of Nigeria ILupeju Branch, Lagos, Nigeria.I have an urgent and very profitable business
proposition for you that should be handled with extreme confidentiality. On January 6,1998 a Foreign Consultant and contractor with the Nigerian
Petrolum Corporation Mr. Abbas Gumarri by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at US$20,500,000.00
(TWENTY MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in my branch. Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank
policy to his forwarding address but got no reply.After a month we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers
Nigerian National Petrolum Corporation that Mr. Abbas Gumarri, died from Kenya Air Bus (A310-301) Flight KQ431,.

On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore
made further investigations and discovered that Mr.Abbas Gumarri did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.This sum of US$20,500,000.00 has been carefully moved out of my bank to a Financial and
Security Company in Europe for safekeeping. No one will ever come forward to claim it and according to the Law of my country, at the expiration of
15 years the money will revert to the ownership of the State (Government) if nobody applies to claim the fund.

This prompted i to contact you. We want to frontyou as the next of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum
of US$20,500,000.00 U.S Dollars that is presently in a Financial and Security Company in Europe. I contacted you because it is against our
code of ethics to own and operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim the money in the Financial and Security Company
in Europe.

I have unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sum would be for you if you agree to take part in this profitable transaction,65% for me
while the remaining 10% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be incurred during the course of the transaction by both parties after the
fund has been claimed and lodged in your account. In the event that you are genunely interested in the transaction, the following information
would be needed from you to expedite action.

1) Your Full Name .
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Age/Sex
4) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be reached at all time because this transaction entailsconstant communication.
The transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as all modalities has been perfected to ensure the hitch free succes of the transaction.
If you are interested, send the requested information via my private email in my next mail i will send you my identitity card for
identification.

God Bless,

Dr. Assia Rafan.
+234-803-272-1684. 24hrs line.
MAIL TO:- mr.asrafan101@yahoo.co.uk



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