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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:
  • "million 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "30% for you " (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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: obikaeze@jmail.co.za
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:33:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Business Transaction?


Dear Sir,
 
I know that you may be surprised by this mail and it's content since we have not met or known each other before. I assure you that what I am about to disclose to you is a business of mutual benefit.
 
My name is Obikaeze Williams. I am a lawyer based in Lagos Nigeria. I am contacting you in my desperate attempt to find a trusted person or company that will act as my partner in this transaction.
 
Sometime last year, a governor of one of the Niger Delta states fronted me to collect a high profile tip (bribe) from a Multi-National Oil company that has oil and gas interest in his state. Niger Delta is the areas in my country where crude oil and gas are tapped. The amount involved in the bribe is US$130,000,000 (One Hundred and Thirty Million Dollars). For ecurity reasons, the oil company paid us the whole money in cash. I would not want to say more than this due to my oath and promise not to say anything about what I did for the governor.
 
After collecting the whole money which came in installments, based on my agreement with the governor, I was paid a total of US$11,000,000 (Eleven Million Dollars). I worked with an insider at First bank plc and have the US$11,000,000 was wired out of the country. The money is currently in my name at the Escrow account that First bank maintains in an oversea bank.
 
Why I contacted you is this: Since I have no bank account overseas and have no legitimate business that could cover such a huge amount, I want you to receive the US$11,000,000. Once you receive the money, I will come over to meet with you in your country and both of us will share the money at the rate of 35/65. You will take 35% (UD$3,850,000) and give me 65% (UD$7,150,000).
 
However, for you to work with me on this, you must accept the following:
 
1. You will keep this proposal confidential at all times and will not in anyway divulge or blackmail me using the information I have given  to you.
 
2. You must be an honest, reputable and trustworthy person or company and will keep to the sharing proportion of 30% for you are 65% for me, andwill not sit on the money and treat me badly when you have it in your custody.
 
3. You will send me an invitation letter to secure my visa to come and meet with you in your country as soon as you have the funds in your custody
 
4. You will teach me a profitable type of business in your country in which I will invest my own half of the money since I have not been a businessman and have not been involved in business before.
 
5. You MUST ensure that your bank account and business will be able to take in the funds without any problem from your government and authorities in your country.
 
Finally, I want you to know that everything about this transaction has been perfected and all the expenses have been made already and the money is currently overseas. So once you declare your willingness to work with me on this, I will update you with me details on how we will go about this transaction so as to conclude it within three days.
 
Please let me hear from you as urgent as possible in you are interested.

Best regards,
Obikaeze Williams.


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