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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "because it still remains the fastest medium of communication" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • jmomoh@bol.com.br (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Josef Momoh <josef_022@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:04:43 +0000
Subject: Very Important Business.


From the desk of: Mr. Josef Momoh.
Bank of Africa (BOA).
Headquarters
Lagos Nigeria


Dear Sir

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business, though this medium (internet) has been greatly abused; I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of communication. However this correspondence is unofficial and private and it should treated as such

I am Mr. Josef Momoh .I work with the audit/remittance department of (BOA) bank of Africa. I have a business which will be beneficial to both of us. The amount of money involved is ($9.2m dollars USD) which I want to transfer out of the country to your bank account, all to my financial benefit and yours too.

This money is owned by a man called Willem Jefferson a business commercialist in West-African regions.

He has been dead since six years ago and since then no claim has been placed on his bank account balance. I want to transfer this money out of the country but such fund can not be transferred without a next of kin attached to the fund.

The fund could be transferred in this way; you shall present yourself as business associates to the deceased person [Willem Jefferson] as details shall be that you are the care-taker business associates to Mr. Willem Jefferson and his properties. I shall make available to you materials and information with which a successful claim shall be placed on the fund.

I shall be your guidance and instructor throughout the duration of this transaction so as to ensure a swift and sure transfer of the fund to your bank account. As to your benefits, you shall be entitled to 30% of this fund for your co-operation in this transaction while 5% will be set aside for expenses both of us incurred during the course of this transaction.

So if you are interested, send a reply to me immediately and in your reply please include your [private phone and your fax numbers] urgency has to be implied and this business must strictly be a deal between both of us. Contact me with my private email jmomoh@bol.com.br


Best regards,

Mr. Josef Momoh.

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