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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:
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • +2348050542375 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "mozark11@terra.es" <mozark11@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:52:56 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: PLEASE DO GET BACK TO ME URGENTLY




Attn:
=20
I feel quite safe of letting you know of this important issue. However, th=
is correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as su=
ch.=20
My Name Is Barrister Mozark Balawa, I am personal attorney to late Engineer=
Howell Douglas from Germany,Who work as an Oil Contractor at (Nigeria Nati=
onal Petroleum Coperation NNPC Port-Harcourt Depour).=20

My client late Engineer Howell G Douglas meet his untimely dead while he wa=
s travelling to his country with his wife Dora,and his only son Gray,with F=
rance airline ,which crashed shortly after take off from Charles De Gaulle =
airport,on the 25th july 2000.

Flight AF4590 crashing in the town of Gonesse, about 10 miles (15 km) north=
of Paris, at 4:44 p.m. local time (1444 GMT / 10:44 a.m. EDT).
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/07/25/concorde.crash.05/
Before his dead,my client deposited $9.7 million,with Union Bank Plc,(Nine =
Million seven hundred thousand Us Dollars).

I have meet with the manager of this bank,and he has make an irrevocation p=
romise to release this fund to any of his relatives/anybody whom i will pre=
sent as the next of Kin /Beneficiary of this Fund.

Since past years of searching for the relatives which all was in vain,I wan=
t you to stand as Next Kin/Beneficiary of my late lovely Client of blessed =
memory.
=20
I will provide you with all the necessary information=E2=80=99s and documen=
ts needed in order to claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a f=
oreigner to provide your safe as Next of Kin/Beneficiary to my late client.=
=20
=20
All arrangement that will ensure a smooth transfer of this fund to your acc=
ount which you are to nominate is already in place.=20
To effect some changes in your name,you are requested to forward to me as f=
ollows:
=20
Your Full Name and Address Age and Occupation Direct Phone Number/Fax I w=
ish you the utmost confidentiality in handling this transaction.
At the conclusion of this transaction, your share will be 35% of the total =
transfer sum, 60% for me while 5% will be set aside for any expenses that =
both parties might incure during the process of this transfer.

Finally i will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk and t=
rouble free to both parties.
Regards.
=20
Mozark Balawa(SAN)
+234-805-054-2375=20


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