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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +2348080823286 (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.
  • barrudoh2007@yahoo.com
  • udohemos2001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Udoh Emos <udohemos1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <udohemos2001@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:31:35 +0000
Subject: MESSAGE FROM BARR.UDOH EMOS




FROM THE DESK OF:BARRISTER UDOH EMOS.SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA (SAN).DIRECTOR, INFORMATIONS PROTOCOLNIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLUEM COMPANYKM5, GARKI WAY, ABUJA,NIGERIA.Tell:+234-80-8082-3286Email:barrudoh2007@yahoo.com Attn: Dear Friend, I am Barrister udoh emos, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to late Mr. George Brumley the African Area Director who was a consultant with Shell-development ,who unfortunately was involved in the plane crash in Nairobi Kenya Airways Flight 431 in 16,355-foot Lenana Peak on Mount Kenya,Monday July 21 2003 you will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website,http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html and also in this website, where Brumley's company talked about his death in the Kenya crash. Mr.George Brumley Hailed from Hamilton, Ontario Canada.Since the death of George Brumley, I as his personal attorney, have made several enquiries to locate his only surviving relation, without any success. I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for George Brumley's relations, so I decided to contact you for this project. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by George Brumley , before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by Eco Bank Plc where my client operates an account worth $USD 7.5 Million Dollars. The board of Eco Bank Plc has issued me a notice that after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable. Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating George Brumley's relatives for sometime now,it on this note that I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner,so that the proceed of this deposit valued at $USD 7.5 Million Dollars can be released to you for our disbursments. I and my team have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum,Upon successful remittance of funds into your bank account,5% has been set aside to cover all expenses incurred both local and international, during the course of this transfer,while 70% will be for me and my team all requires is your honest cooperation to enable us see this business successful. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law. George Brumley was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of Eco Bank Plc.Further details awaits your response by email.PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.Do not hesitate to include your private phone and fax number, when replying this proposal,you can also email me on this alternative email:udohemos2001@yahoo.com Yours faithfully, Barrister udoh emos (SAN). Call Me:+ 234-80-8082-3286 REPLY TO:udohemos2001@yahoo.com
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