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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 sum of money" (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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • yakubuhammed@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: YAKUBU HAMMED <yakubuhammed@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:50:06 -0400
Subject: READ AND REPLY!!

FROM: HAMMED YAKUBU
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
40 MARINA, LAGOS
NIGERIA
Email: yakubuhammed@hotmail.com

09/08/2007.

Attn:Sir/Madam,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP
SECRET. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make
any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all
will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you
by email due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been
reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am
HAMMED YAKUBU, a Director at the Union Bank Nigeria PLC, Lagos. I
came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and
reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction which
involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account
requiring maximum confidence.

THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner, late Engineer Johnson Creek, an Oil Merchant /
contractor with the federal Govenment of Nigeria, until his death
three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Union
Bank PLC.,Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$38.5 M (Thirty
Eight Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which
the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his
available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a
discredited trust fund for alms and ammunition at a military war
college here in Nigeria.

Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank to get in
touch with any of the Creek family or relatives but all have proved
to no avail.

It is because of the perceived possibility of not going to be able
to locate any of late Engr. Johnson Creek’s next of
kin (he had no known wife and children) that the management under
the influence of our Chairman, board of directors, Retired Major
General Kalu Uke Kalu, that an arrangement for the fund to be
declared "UNCLAIMABLE" and then be subsequently donated to the Trust
Fund for Alms and Ammunition which will further enhance the course
of war in Africa and the world in general.

In order to avert this negative development, myself and some of my
trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have
you stand as late Engr.Johnson Creeks next of kin so that the
fund,USD$38.5M would be subsequently transferred and paid into your
bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and
proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out
and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share
would be 30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for
expenses while the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for
investment purposes in your country.

If this proposal is OK. by you and you do not wish to take advantage
of the trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly
get to me immediately via my email, furnishing me with your most
confidential telephone, fax number and exclusive e-mail so that I
can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-peration.

Regards,

HAMMED YAKUBU.
UNION BANK OF NIG. PLC.

NB: Please, kindly disregard this message if you are not capable of
handling this transaction.



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