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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:
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "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.
  • peter_amangbo1974@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Peter Amangbo" <peter_amangbo1@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: peter_amangbo1974@yahoo.es
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 03:07:12 -0700
Subject: Urgent Mail


From Mr. Peter Amangbo
Branch Manager,
Equitorial Trust Bank Plc,
Victoria Islands,Lagos- Nigeria
personal email: peter_amangbo1974@yahoo.es

Attn: President/Ceo.

I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable Business
proposal, though I don't know you neither have I seen you Before but my
confidence was reposed on you when the Chief Executive of Lagos State
chamber of Commerce and Industry handed me your contact for A confidential
business. I am the manager of Equitorial Trust Bank Plc (ETB) Victoria
Islands,
Lagos Nigeria. The intended business is this; we Had a customer, a Foreign
resident in Nigeria, he was a Contractor with One of the Government
Intrastate.
He has in his Account in my bank branch The sum (US$20.5million) Twenty
million five hundred thousand united state dollars Unfortunately, the man
died
three years ago until today Non-of His next of kin has come forward to claim
the
money.Having noticed This,I in collaboration with two other top Officials of
the
bank have Covered Up the account all this while.

Now we want you (being a foreigner) to Be Fronted as one of his next of kin
and
forward your account and other Relevant documents to be advised to you by
us
to attest to the Claim. We Will use our positions to get all internal
documentations
to back up The Claims. The whole procedures will last only five working days
to get
The Fund retrieved successfully without trace even now or in future. Your
Response is only what we are waiting for as we have arranged all Necessary
things.As soon as this message comes to you kindly get back to me indicating

Your interest, then I will furnish you with the whole procedures to Ensure
that this
deal is successfully concluded.

For your assistance we Have agreed to give you twenty five percent (25%) of
the
Total sum at The end of the transaction while 65% would be for my colleagues

and I And the remaining 10% would be for any form of expenses that may be
Incurred during the course of the transaction which would be given to Us
When the money is transferred into your account before splitting the Balance

on the agreed percentage of 65% to 25%.In order to get all the Legal
documents
from the court, kindly send the following information To Us immediately.
Your
full name, telephone,mobile and fax numbers as Well as your resident or
company address.I await your earliest Response. Please reply through my
personal email: peter_amangbo1974@yahoo.es

Thanks,

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Peter Amangbo

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