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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:
  • "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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
• 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.
  • leajn@mail2europe.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "John A. Leahy" <leajn89@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:19:25 +0100
Subject: [ SPAM ] Please Contact Me.

Attn:


I am John A. Leahy a Norwich citizen and also a good
Christian. I have been a group managing director with the
NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Company Plc), one of the
leading oil and gas industry in Nigeria for five years now.
I had a fantastic family until late year 2006 when I lost my
wife and my only daughter in an auto crash. As I am writing
this letter to you, I am lying on my sick bed being
diagnosed with cancer of the lungs of which the doctors had
already informed me of having no chances of survival and I
have not more than six months to live.

I have contacted you to help me fulfill my last wish as a
man and also as a Christian. I have been successful and have
an account valued at 8.4 million dollars and am really
worried of what happens to this money when I am gone because
I have come to find out that wealth acquisition without
Christ is vanity. According to the rules and regulations of
my bank, my next of kin must be a foreigner and the bank
will have my account confiscated or become unserviceable
when nobody comes for the money as my next of kin after I
must have gone.

I now seek your consent to establish you as the beneficiary
of my funds, so that this money, $8,400,000.00 will be
released and paid to you as the beneficiary and my next of
kin, but only on the following conditions.

- That you will use 60% of my money to establish a charity
organization and 40% to be yours.
- That my name will be used as the founder of the charity
organization for my remembrance sake.
- That you must be a good Christian.


All documents will be perfected to enable my bank transfer
these fund to you as soon as I receive your acceptance. My
lawyer will provide with you, the necessary details to
commence with this transfer. Please send me your direct
telephone number for easy communication.
I rely confidently in you for this to work. Kindly contact
me via my personal email (leajn@mail2europe.com)


Best regards,

John A. Leahy.





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