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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)
  • "huge sum of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • mantu_044@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ALHAJI DR. IBRAHIM MANTU" <mantu_022@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:03:56 +1000
Subject: URGENT.

FROM THE DESK OF EX-DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT
ALHAJI DR. IBRAHIM MANTU
mantu_044@yahoo.com

I am sorry for reaching you so urgently without prior knowledge of each
other. But this is due to the urgency in my motive to a trusted partner or
affiliate overseas who can assist me in this very confidential business.
I am Alhaji Dr. Ibrahim Mantu the Ex-Deputy Senate President of the Fedral
Republic of Nigeria Who just left office on the 29th May 2007 . You are
free to confirm this on the internet as you may wish.

I am presently undergoing serious problems and I am facing
trials at the senate tribunal I therefore require your assistance urgently
to transfer a huge sum of money from a finance firm in here Nigeria to a safe
account in your country. and i am presently under house arrest as i am
been monitored by security agents so i need this fund into a safe account
of a trusted person before the senate tribunal proceeds on their
investigations.

You can confirm this investigations on the website:
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=47838
Please let me know if you are willing to assist me and I will proceed to
discuss the modalities with you and the details. I am ready to compensate
you with 20% of the total money that will be transfered;being US$40
Million Dollars.

I await your urgent reply and if you are not interested please let me know
in order to enable me source for help somewhere else.
Reply to my private email above

May Allah Bless you.

ALHAJI DR. IBRAHIM MANTU

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