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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:
  • "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign exchange" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • ali_zk001@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aali_zk001@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Ali Zaki" <aaalizaki9@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:44:59 -0700
Subject: I need your urgent help for this deal.


From:Dr.Ali Zaki.
Director: Audit/Account Unit,
Foreign Remittance,
Eco Bank of Africa.
20 Aba Road,Port Harcourt,
Nigeria.
E-mail:ali_zk001@yahoo.co.uk <E-mail%3Aali_zk001@yahoo.co.uk>


PLEASE, TREAT AS ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENTIAL

My name is Dr.Ali Zaki.I am one of the senior managers in the bank .I work
for Eco Bank of Africa Nigeria and I work under the director of foreign
Exchange Operations (Eco Bank of Africa plc)I am contacting you presently
because I need your urgent assistance in a business transaction that will be
of immense benefit to both of us.I have the immediate need to transfer some
fund that has been declared UNCLAIMED by the chairman and some members of
the board of directors of our bank.

The fund is the closing balance of one of our best customer who died in the
crash. I was his personal account officer just before he died in the ADC
plane crash of 1997 in Abidjan. He was a Japanese citizen, a contractor to
the Federal government of Nigeria, he supplied and installed equipments and
his company Creek Contractors completed some of the best construction
contracts in the country. His closing balance in the bank US5.5M has been
tagged unclaimed because no relations of his has come to make a statement of
claim. We have no knowledge of a next of kin to him.

At this point I trust you can picture what situation is like. We have strong
prove that the chairman and the board of directors will keep most of the
funds for themselves and donate the remainder to a discredited military
trust fund in Nigeria.This invariably is an attempt to infuse more money
into the acquisition of military equipment (arms and ammunitions) for use in
an already prostrate Africa. This of course, is senseless hence my mission.
My colleagues and I have made several attempts at locating that could be
remotely related to him and we have been doing this for years now.

Right now I am almost alone in enterprise and I have presently decided on
moving the fund to a foreign account. I am hereby soliciting your assistance
and I will be very grateful if you will be willing to help in this regard. I
have worked out a plan to handle this transaction in carefully followed
stages.You will help by providing a safe bank account into which the fund
will be paid and you will stand as a next of kin to the deceased. I will
provide you with answers to security questions, which you will have to
answer.I will also, provide answers to questions that only a person related
to him will know. If you follow my instructions closely, we will
successfully conclude this transaction in 14 working days. Every thing
should be concluded on phone and fax between you and the bank.

For you participation you will be compensated with 35%, 5% is set aside for
all the expenses incurred by both parties. 60% will be kept in trust in
your account prior to my arrival for the sharing. I make this proposal in
trust and in good faith, therefore if you are interested and you agree to
assist me then contact me immediately you receive this email. There is a lot
more to talk about. If you are not interested, then please do get rid of
this mail and please forgive me if this message has upset you anyway.

Thank you and best regards,

Please contact me with this email Above if you are interested.

Dr.Ali Zaki.

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