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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:
  • "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.
  • davidajamiii@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "David Ajami Guildhall" <davidajamii@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: davidajamiii@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:40:25 +0000
Subject: FROM: GUILDHALL CHAMBERS (YOUR ASISSTANCE TO TRANSFER (US$8.5Million is requir)

                                                             

                                                      PLOT 122, ABIOLA CRESCENT

                                                   VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS- NIGERIA

                                                    Email: davidajamiii@hotmail.com

                                              

TRANSFER OF (US$8.5Million ) TO AN OFF SHORE CORPORATE/PRIVATE BANK ACCOUNT

My name is Attorney David A Guildhall. I am a solicitor and the personal attorney to the Late Mr. Matins Hooks, (Chief Executive Officer) of BIO OIL SERVICING LTD, who until his untimely death Two years ago, was a contractor with Shell Oil Nigeria, Herein after shall Be Referred To As My Client.

Since his death I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any relative or close friend of my client but has been unsuccessful.
After these several failed attempts, my lawyer friend then advised me to urgently arrange to transfer out this money through another foreign Beneficiary abroad  hence I contacted you. I am writing you to assist in repatriating the money and properties left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank.
 
Of particular note is the lodgment with his Bank here in Nigeria, where the deceased had a lodgment valued at about US$8.5Million and the Bank has issued a notice through my Chamber as the attorney to Late Mr. Matins Hooks requesting that I provide the next-of-kin or have the account closed within 6 weeks following several years of dormancy.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the deceased relatives for over 2 years, I seek your consent to present you to the bank as the Business Partner of my Late Client(Mr. Matins Hooks), considering being a Business man; he should have a sister company; which I will present your company as the sister company to my late client company, so the fund will be reprocessed in  your company's name. I plan to work with you to seek possible investment overseas with this fund and this will determine your reward of 40% of the total sum as soon as the fund get to your account.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to backup this claim and I am willing to transfer this status to you based on your integrity and willingness to work with me. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me immediately as I do not have much time in my disposal. If however, you are not disposing to assist, please kindly delete this mail from your mailbox in view of the confidentiality of my personality involved.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Best Regards,

David A Guildhall

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