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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:
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +2348028694238 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: ade eze <adeeze45@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:06:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FROM ADE EZE.



CREDIT CONTROL DEPARTMENT (CCD)
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC (UBN)
Tel: 234-802-8694238

Dear.Suzuie,

I have confirm receipt of your mail and am obliged to state authoritatively as explained in the proposal.
Am the director Credit Control Department, Union Bank Of Nigeria Plc Lagos.

The decease Mr. THEOPHILUS BAKER before his death deposited the sum of $20.10 million dollars with the bank, the bank has made fruitless efforts in tracing the family and the management in a Board meeting has endoresd that the fund be declared unclaimed and channeled into an unknown account, so on this platform i contact you to stand as the NEXT OF KIN.

All the neccessary documents regarding this transaction shall be forwarded to you and to assure you that this transaction is risk free.

Please as a matter of urgency your bank details is urgently needed for the processing of the documents and the change of all the documents to your name as the sole beneficiary and would appreciate you forward to me your working telephone number for more clarification.

Thanks and be blessed .
MR.ADE EZE
TEL 234 80 28694238



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