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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • christna1958@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Christina Adigun <christinaadigun2@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:18:19 +0000
Subject: FROM: Mrs Christina Adigun


Dear Sir/Madam,

This mail is being sent to you with best of intentions and for our mutual benefit.

Iam the account officer to one late Mr Chung Timothy who was an oil merchant and oil service contractor in the oil rich Niger-Delta region in Nigeria who lost his life in an air crash involving a Korean Airline Boeing 747-300 Flight number 801 on August 5, 1997 in which 227 passengers out of 231 including crew lost their lives during one of his business trips to Korea.you can verify this accident in the following.website;http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/korean.crash/
Before the sudden death of late Chung Timothy, in the ill-fated airplane,he opened a dollar account with my bank,First Inland Bank plc into which he deposited usd8,500,000.00 with no indication of his next of kins.Following this unfortunate incident,I was instructed by my boss to locate his attorney who is also known to me as the late Mr.Chung Timothy used to visit our bank with him to recommend his next of kin for the payment of the usd8,500,000.00 standing to the credit of late Mr Chung Timothy. .The attorney has failed in his bid to present next of kin of our deceased customer since he never introduced any nor wrote his will before the accident.

The purpose of contacting you is to present yourself as the next of kin to our late customer and claim out the money for sharing between you,myself and the late customer's attorney who will recommend and present you as his next of kin.The late customer's attorney and I will jointly work to see to it that the money is paid to you because if not one comes forward to claim the money,our bank will confiscate it and convert it to its own use.

Contact me through my private E-mail: christna1958@aol.co.uk

If you are interested,contact me by return mail as I shall give you details of how we will proceed including terms of sharing the money.
Have a blessed day.
Yours faithfully,Mrs Christina Adigun
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