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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "John Victor" <johnvictor509@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnvictor46@uymail.com
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:04:58 +0000
Subject: URGENT DEAR FRIEND

DEAR FRIEND,

PLEASE PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE THIS BUSINESS DEAL TO YOU.MY NAME IS JOHN
VICTOR AND I AM A SENIOR MANAGEMENT STAFF OF STANDARD TRUST INTERNATIONAL
BANK(STIB).I WORK IN THE INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT AS THE HEAD OF
DEPARTMENT.

I WANT TO ASK FOR YOUR COOPERATION TO OBTAIN LEGALLY THE INHERITANCE OF AN
OVERAGED DEPOSIT IN OUR BANK.THE DEPOSIT BELONGED TO ONE ISRAEL RALEIGH WHOM
I ESTABLISHED THROUGH PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM DURING HIS LIFE TIME
HAD NO KNOWN RELATIONS AS HE WAS ORIGINALLY FROM FINLAND BUT WAS ADOPTED BY
A BRITISH CHILDLESS COUPLE WHO BROUGHT HIM TO NIGERIA AT A VERY TENDER
AGE.HIS ADOPTED PARENTS DIED IN NIGERIA AND BEQEAUTED A FLOURISHING
CONTRUCTION COMPANY THAT HAD LARGE GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE TO RALEIGH.

UNFORTUNATELY,ENGINEER RALEIGH DIED IN THE 2002 WITH HIS FAMILY OF TWO
CHILDREN AND WIFE IN A GHASTLY MOTOR ACCIDENT.
HIS ACCOUNT IN OUR BANK TOTALLING $15,639,000(FIFTEEN MILLION,SIX HUNDRED
AND THIRTY NINE UNITED STATES DOLLARS)HAS BEEN DORMANT EVER THEN INSPITE OF
CONCERTED EFFORTS BY OUR BANK TO TRACE SOMEONE EVEN WITH THE REMOTEST
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.

NOW,WE HAVE BEEN ASKED BY NIGERIA'S APEX BANK TO RETIRE ALL OVERAGED
DEPOSITS TO THE CENTRAL BANK AS UNCLAIMED DEPOSIT IF BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER
WE ARE UNABLE TO FIND THE NEXT OF KIN TO SUCH ACCOUNTS TO WHOM THE VARIOUS
DEPOSITS WILL BE PAID AS NEXT OF KIN INHERITORS.
I HAVE CONCLUDED ARRANGEMENT WITH THE CUSTOMER SERVICES MANAGER TO
COLLABORATE WITH A FOREIGNER WHOM WE WILL INSERT HIS NAME AS NEXT OF KIN IN
THE DEPOSIT OPENING DOCUMENTS OF LATE RALEIGH IN OUR BANK AND PRESENT SUCH
FELLOW AS THE NEXT OF KIN.WE HAVE ALL IT TAKES TO DO THIS LEGALLY IN SUCH A
WAY THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE PROBLEM BEFORE AND AFTER CLAIMING THE DEPOSIT.WE
WILL ALSO DESTROY EVERY DOCUMENT OF THIS DEPOSIT AFTER THE TRANSFER OF IT TO
YOUR ACCOUNT AS IF THE ACCOUNT NEVER EXISTED.

WE WILL GIVE YOU 20% OF THIS DEPOSIT WHILE 5% WILL BE FOR EXPENSES.THE REST
WILL BE FOR US LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN WORK THIS OUT WITH US SO THAT WE WILL
GIVE YOU THE DETAILS OF HOW WE CAN OBTAIN THIS CLAIM IN MORE OR LESS 10
DAYS.

HOPING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOONEST.

MR.JOHN VICTOR.

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