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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.
  • steve1okon@katamail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Steve Okon" <steve4okon@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:44:30 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE AWAITED

ATTN: Sir/madam,

Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am the manager Bills
and Exchange of Foreign Remittance office of Grand Bank of Africa (G.B.A.
Headquarters Lagos Nigeria) formally Barclays Bank of England (BBE-England).

In accordance with Federal Government Policies, on indigenization 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, who died along side his entire family in November 2002 in
a ghastly auto crash. Since this development, we have advertised 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. I need 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 document to be in accordance with the banking law and
guidelines, So you have nothing to worry about. I have agreed that 30% of
the money will be for you, 10% for expenses incurred on both sides, while
60% will be for me. If you are going to help me, indicate by replying this
letter and putting in your

PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.

I await your immediate reply to enable us start this transaction in earnest.

*Your ressponse should be sent to my most confidential email address below:

steve1okon@katamail.com

Once I receive your reply, I will send you the Text of Application for
immediate of claim.

Thanks for your anticipated assistance.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Steve Okon.

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