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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "j'ai une nouvelle adresse mail" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • gabrieljson3@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Gabriel=20Johnson\(MANSION=20BANK\)?=" <gabrieljson3@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: gabrieljohnson@jmail.co.za
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:09:15 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: AM ANXIOUSLY EXPECTING YOUR RESPONSE.


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : gabrieljson3@yahoo.fr



- Dear FriendI Am Mr.Gabriel Johnson the Manager, Bills And Exchange at theForeignRemittance Department in a Bank. Actually, I have a very urgent and confidential Business Propositionforyou which I feel will be beneficial to both of us. On the 6th of Marc2001,ourCustomer,anAmericanlate Michael R. Canty,an Oil Merchant / Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeriadeposited, a valued amount of US$32Million in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to hisforwarded address but got no reply. After a month we sent a reminder and finally discoverfrom his contract employers NNPC, that late Michael R. Canty,until his death six years ago inghastly terrorist attack on an American Airline Flight 11, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los AngelesCalifornia, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) with 86 peopleon board. All occupants of the Aeroplane unfortunately lost their lives.On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his Next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that late Michael R. Canty did not declare any Next of kin in all his official documents.This sum US$32Million is still floating in the bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian Laws, at the expiration of 7years, the money will revert to the Ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.My purpose of sending you this proposal is to ask you to stand in as the Next of kin to late Michael R. Canty. This is simple. All I require of you is honesty and cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I advice you send me in return the following via email: 1. Your full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund.2. Your contact address.3. Your private phone and fax numbers,Our sharing ratio is as stated below;1. I as the Originator of the Fund will take 60% 2. You as the Manager of the Fund will take 40%. It is very important we keep this transaction very CONFIDENTIAL .You have to use this medium to promise me that you will not in anyway expose this transaction to anybody be it your Friends, Colleagues and Co-WorkersThanks for your anticipated cooperation and understanding.I hope to get a response from you as soon as possible.Mr. Gabriel Johnson.

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