419 scam: "MR ANTHONY WILLIAM"<anthonywilliam26@yahoo.com> THE DIRECTOR, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand us 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)
- "lagos" (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.
- anthonywilliam62@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR ANTHONY WILLIAM" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <anthonywilliam62@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:02:55 -0400
Subject: THE DIRECTOR, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION

FROM: MR ANTHONY WILLIAM
THE DIRECTOR, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION,
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA (UBA) LAGOS NIGERIA.
Private Email: anthonywilliam62@yahoo.com

I am the director in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA (UBA) branch in Lagos Nigeria. I know my contacting you in such a manner will be surprising to you, but I urge you to read this letter carefully as I am optimistic it will open doors for unimaginable financial rewards for both of us.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand US dollars (US$2.5m) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers (Mr Andreas Schranner from GERMANY) Who died thirteen years ago, on Monday, 31 July,2000 in a plane crash that claimed the lives of the whole passengers aboard. He was a German, who ran import/export business enterprise and he was the major supplier of Agricultural Equipment and Machineries to the West African Economic and Monetary Control. The following web- link is a gateway to BBC news extract about the incident. Please, click or copy it and paste on your browser to open by itself:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because the bank cannot release it unless somebody applies as next of kin or relation to the deceased, but unfortunately there is no one that comes for the claim as we learnt that his immediate family died along with him on that day.

This is therefore the reason why I decided to make this business proposal to you, so that the money could be released to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for us to share. I really don't want this money to go into my government treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and it is only a foreigner that can stand as next of kin for the claim.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner because your application will be used to process the release of the money, 50% would be for me and 10% for any expenses or tax that may arise and also part to the motherless babies homes. I will visit your country for disbursement according to the indicated sharing percentages as
soon as the transfer takes place.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as next of kin or relation of the deceased indicating your personal and bank details as directed in the below APPLICATION FORM.

COMPLETE THE FORM:
1. NAME IN FULL:...
2. ADDRESS:...
3. NATIONALITY:...
4. AGE:...
5. SEX...
6. OCCUPATION:...
7. PHONE & FAX:...
8. BANK DETAILS:...

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