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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Ibafon Sunday <drsundayibafon07@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <dribafonsunday@yahoo.dk>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:02:39 -0700
Subject: READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME



Audit Department of Union Bank PLC








FROM THE DESK OF:ACCOUNTS & AUDIT DEPARTMENTUNION BANK PLCABUJA, NIGERIA.Good Day.I am afraid that internet is not the best for this transaction but since I could not get your mailing address, I decided to contact you through email.I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Union Bank PLC, Nigeria. I decided to contact you after a careful thought and conviction that you are capable of handling this business transaction which is explained below;In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 10.5m USD (Ten million, five hundred thousand Dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died in the recent .Bellview Plane Crash on Oct 23 2005 in Nigeria.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/nigeria.plane/
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-2482.0.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/world/main965281.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=World_965281

His name is Mr Grieves Martins.[Our Customer]Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died with him.
Leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and seek your consent for claim of the money since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.We agree that 20 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, and 80% would be for me and my colleagues. After the money is transfered, I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.I expect you to contact me as soon as you receive this letter.Hoping to hear from you immediately.

DR.SUNDAY IBAFON.Director Accounts & Audit Department ,Union Bank PLC.
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