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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:

• 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.
  • stanley_ez1@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Stanley Eze" <stanley_ez1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: stanleyeze2@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:15:46 +0100
Subject: philip)Very Urgent

Dear philip

Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am the manager
Bills and Exchange of Foreign Remittance office of STANDARD TRUST BANK
PLC Lagos Nigeria In accordance with Federal Government Policies, on
indeginlization Law on company and Allied matters, of Jan 1972.

I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation
to carry out this transaction. The bank discovered an abandoned sum of
US$25.5 million (twenty five million five hundred thousand US Dollars)
in an account that belongs to one of our Foreign customer ,a national of
your
country, who used to be a financial controller with Shell Oil
development company in Nigeria. Him and His wife and their three
childrenwere involved in a planecrash,November 2000. Since this development,
we
haveadvertised for his next of kin or any close relation to come forward to
claim this money, but nobody came to apply for the claim.

To this effect, I have decided to look for a trusted foreign partner
who can stand in as the next of kin to the deceased and claim this
money. Ineed a foreign partner to apply for the claim because of the fact
that
the customer was a foreigner and we don't want this money to go into the
Banks Treasury as unclaimed fund.

NOTE: You do not have to be directly related to the deceased, in order
to assist me in carrying out this transaction.Every document to effect
this process will emanate from my table and I will perfect every
documentto be in accordance with the banking law and guidelines, So you have
nothing to worry about. I and my coleagues agreed that 30% of the money
willbe for you, 10% for expenses incurred on both sides, while 60% will be
for me and my coleagues.

If you are going to help me, indicate by replying this letter and
putting inyour private phone,mobile and fax numbers for easy communicating,
I
awaityour kind response,Please if you are interested and capable in handling
thisdeal with me, due reply only on my alternative email address for
security reasons (stanley_ez1@yahoo.com) And note
that the nurture of this deal needs a very top secrecy

I await your immediate reply to enable us start this transaction in
earnest.Once I receive your reply, I will send you the Text of
Applicationfor immediate of claim.

Thanks for your anticipated assistance.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Nelson Ezenwa.


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