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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "account opening form" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348038300260 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: JEFFERY ANDERSON <aaddrr_8@msn.com>
Reply-To: <jefferyanderson0011@live.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:35:32 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT




FROM MR.JEFFERY ANDERSON
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
UNION BANK PLC FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
TELEPHONE+2348038300260.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Mr.Jeffery Anderson, I
am the auditing and accounting officer of Union Bank Plc .I
got your contact over the Internet in my search for the
relatives of one of our numerous customers who died
alongside with his family in an air crash. During the
routine check in my branch, I discovered an abandoned sum of
Twelve million Five hundred united states dollars
(USD $12.5m). in an account belonging to an expatriate
customer Lynn Roy, a mining consultant/contractor with one of the leading oil
company in Federal Republic of Nigera before his accidental
death on Saturday 21st July 2003 in Nigeria via the ill-fated
EAS Airline crash.

Ever since then, valuable efforts have been made to get to
his people but to no avail, as he had no known relatives and
more so, he used his wife's name as his next of kin in his
account opening forms. I have been expecting his relatives
to come over to claim his money as it cannot be claimed
unless somebody applies officially for it as his next of kin
as indicated in our banking guide but no avail.
Unfortunately, I discovered that his supposed next of kin
(his wife and children) died with him over the plane crash
incident. Over the years, I decided to look for the
necessary papers relating to the deposit in order to make
business out of it as the deposit was made in my branch. Now
that all papers are ready, I am asking for your assistant to
release the money to you as his relation/next of kin for
safekeeping and subsequent disbursement. I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
but I am assuring you of the Security of us all as
modalities have been perfected for a swift and smooth operation.

You are being contacted because Since nobody showed up for
his money and I don't want it to go back into Federal
Republic Of Nigeria account as unclaimed bill when the next
audit is conducted. The banking law and guideline here
stipulates that such money if remain unclaimed, will be
transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed effect. The
request of a foreigner to act as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a citizen of Federal Republic Of Nigeria cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I am ready to negotiate the mode of sharing with you. I will
visit your country for the disbursement/investing of my
share according to the percentages we shall agree upon after
the successful transfer of the money to your account. I will
not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is
100% hitch-free and that there is absolutely no risk in it,
having concluded the modalities for a smooth operation and
my position in the bank guarantees its successful execution.
All I require is your honest co-operation, a guarantee of
your sincerity and capability to enable us conclude this
deal. Note however that the sensitive nature of this
transaction demands that you have to keep it absolutely
confidential.

Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard
this letter if you do not appreciate this proposition.

Thank you very much for your time.
Trusting to hear from you immediately through my email
address {jefferyanderson0011@live.com}

Best regards,
Mr.Jeffery Anderson

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