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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:
  • "my names are " (a common phrase found 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.
  • iboriv@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • iborivan@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Vannessa Ibori <vannyibori@live.com>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 13:09:40 -0400
Subject: PLEASE CAN YOU MANAGE MY ESTATE AND FINANCE?







ATTEND TO THIS IMMEDIATELY
Hi,
My names are Nkate Vannesa Ibori.Am the daughter to the former Governor of DELTA STATE IN NIGERIA.Am sorry to send this mail to you and i hope you can come to the aid of my father who is right now in jail because the country is full of injustice I had to come back from london where am schooling to handle the assignment he has sent me and that is the reason am writing you.Firstly,am 24years old,in my higher school.
My father was a good man all through the eight years he was Governor,he helped so many people around him and empowered so many,even to this present president of the country.When he left the sit as the Governor, he was then arrested,stating he embezzled states money.
As i write you,my father is in jail,in the prison.Its everywhere even world news.Am ashamed that this is happening.All i want you to do now is this,he has entrusted me with the documents of his buildings and assets abroad,his financial status and has asked me to get a beneficiary to his wealth.CAN YOU DO THIS?
He does not trust any Nigerian now,not even his people or his present wife.He trust me and believe i can do it.Pls do this for me and you will benefit when he is out from that dungeon.This he asked me to do when i went to the prisons to go and see him.
His lawyer asked me to get someone with a good heart and my father asked me to give out 20% of the money to anyone willing to help us do this.All together, the money will be over usd102million,but the papers i have states usd56million in cash.To prove am real,below is the website.This was when he was set free in london before the re-arrest again in nigeria
http://saharareporters.com/www/report/detail/?id=420
All this are mere jealousy because he was getting to lime light and they felt it was time to hit him hard.I know my father and people even know him better.Below again is the scandals http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/zmagazine/article.php?articleid=21257
I could go on and on.But the root of this whole letter to you is,will you help me out?Right now am living like a slave with little or nothing.But if we could do this together,i will rise and live again.My father will never forget you did this for him.please i beg you in Gods name.No one is perfect,he must have done some bad but we are all human and bound to make mistakes.
On you response,i will open communication with you immediately.But this will be between me, you and the lawyer.Here is my private email iboriv@yahoo.com
thank you,
Vannesa
NOTE PLEASE
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS BOX BECAUSE IT COULD BE MONITORED AS WE ARE RIGHT NOW PUBLIC FIGURES.MY PRIVATE EMAIL ARE:
iborivan@yahoo.com

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