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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:
  • "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.
  • johnken35@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Sandler" <larry_070@myway.com>
Reply-To: mrsandery1@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:05:55 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION OF OLD CONTRACT/INHERITANCE ARREARS.


Foreign Operation Dept Tinubu Qsuare Lagos
Our ref UBA/TD/0021/07
Attn: Beneficiary.
PAYMENT NOTIFICATION OF OLD CONTRACT/INHERITANCE ARREARS.
We have the pleasure in informing you of an approval obtained this week from the president and commander in chief of the armed forces Alahaji Umaru Musa Yaradu . The Senate Committee on Contract/Inheritance Payments to pay the entire amount owed and due to you in settlement of fund.
We have noted with concern the wrongful withholding of your long overdue payment by a syndicate of corrupt public officers who made several unsuccessful attempts to divert your funds into their corrupt private accounts overseas. This discovery was made recently by a report submitted to my office by the President and the Senate Committee for the Review of Foreign Debts.
Based on this approval, we have already credited the entire sum in you favour through our overseas paying bank, Please, kindly reconfirm your details and the Receiving Bank details to confirm with what we have in our records to avoid wrongful diversion.
On behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, we regret all financial losses you may have incurred in the past as a result of official misconduct and we wish to record here our appreciation for the great patience exhibited by you and members of your company in waiting for this payment. Congratulations!please contact me in my private E-MAIL;johnken35@yahoo.com,Mr JOHN KEN.GOVERNOR UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLCForeign Operation Dept/Treasury (UBA).NOTE: That we have made the lodgement of your funds in our overseas correspondence company's account with the HSBC bank in London for onward transfer to you.

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