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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "bank charges " (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. Never ever send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally. )
• 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.
  • mamaechi_intercontinentalbankplc@rocketmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "williams christ" <williamschrist@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: mamaechi_intercontinentalbankplc@rocketmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:53:00 -0800
Subject: So contact the customer care of the bank with your information.


Dear Friend,

Good day! It is quite sometime now we have not been in contact with each
other.

Anyway, I have been wanting to see how you can receive your pending money
by draft or through telegraphic transfer but since that time we have
encountered one problem or the other as result of your inability to come in
person to make this claim. However,the money that has been stocked in the
bank ever since that time has acrued to the tune of ONE MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($1,530,000.00 USD).

I am delighted to inform you that all is well because I have not relented
in effort in making sure that you receive your money.

As I earlier promise you that I will do anything within my reach to ensure
a successful transfer of your fund to you.Inspite of these problems we
encounted, I have been able to finalise with the bank and the bank has
finally initiated a hitch free method of payment through ATM card (credit
card) and the card has been procured and the money already loaded in it with
the already provided information of yours which the bank has.Moreover,
INTERCONTINENTAL BANK NIGERIA PLC. as result of banks recapitalisation
exercise that took place in the continent, there were marger of banks. So
every correspondence of this transaction sholud be forwarded solely to the
above bank who has the authority and responsibility to effect the payment of
your fund to you.Meanwhile, all the bank charges that are required in this
transaction have been paid.

So contact the customer care of the bank with following information:
Contact Person: Mr Marcel Amaechi. Email:
{mamaechi_intercontinentalbankplc@rocketmail.com} Note: As soon as you
contact him, he will furnish you with neccessary steps to take in order to
conclude the transaction. I am already away in China to see some businesses
through and I am wishing luck and successful transaction with the bank.

Regards,

Alphonsus . Aku.

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