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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.
• 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.
  • agbai_agbai@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: agbai agbai <agbai_g_agbai@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:23:36 +0100 (BST)
Subject: SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE



SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE
Compliments.
I am the General Manager of CITIGROUP MORTGAGE BANK PLC. During the course of the end of year auditing, I discovered that a certain amount has remained unclaimed. I discovered that this amount belongs to one Mr. Fredrick Lelyton a national of your country who died in the plane crash that occured some time in Nigeria. And he left no next of Kin to contact to inherit his
account.

He has left a total of US$19.4M Dollars in his account with our bank, since nobody has appeared as his next of kin. I now want to use this opportunity to contact you to front as the next of kin, by providing an account where we can secure this money and use it for investment purposes. For providing this account, you will be compensated with 20% of the total value. We will use 10% to offset all charges that may arise in the cost of this transaction, 70% will be for investment into any lucreative business with high profit margin and good turnover rate under your management and supervision. Therefore, if you are interested and capable of handling a business of this magnitude, do not hesitate to acknowledge my mail urgently as I have all the logistics to commence the treansfer on provision of the receiving bank/account expected from you.

I will use my official position in the bank to ensure that due approvals are granted for the emittance to your account. This business is risk free and can be concluded within 14 bank working days from the date of your approval to the date of remittance, but for my security and my job position this must be kept highly confidential. All I need from you is your address/telephone/mobile lines for easier communication. Reply to agbai_agbai@hotmail.com.

I expect to hear from you soon.
Faithfully yours,
AGBAI.
General Manager.
CITIGROUP MORTGAGE BANK PLC.



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