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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:
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "FINANCE INCORPORATED" <financeincorporated@msn.com>
Reply-To: savemysoul60@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:17:23 +0000
Subject: Compliments of the Season to you



My Dear,

Compliments of the season.I am Mrs. Margret Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, the
wife of the Bayelsa State Governor,here in Nigeria.

Mr. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is the governor of an oil-rich Nigerian state. I
got your contact through
my dauthers personal search for a reliable person to assist us.
If you are following the event in Nigeria, My Husband (Mr. Diepreye
Alamieyeseigha,Bayelsa State Governor) is presently in distress and under
arrest,by the British Government for money laundering charges.

I am also held but now kept under house arrest for treasonable felony
under British Government in colloaboration of Nigerian Government(my
country).

For real and more reliable information / details, You should and can find
the news on the BBC news link here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4291350.stm

Our family attorney together with a host of human right activist are
protesting and working round the clock within his legal power to ensure the
freedom of my husband and I.

The government had frozen all the family account and auctioned all our
properties.To save the family from total bankruptcy, I managed to secure
the sum of US15,700,000.00 ($15.7M)
with the help and advise of my family lawyer Barr.John Adeyemi-Coker.

The money was disguised to beat the Nigerian security and it is currently
deposited in a security company with a coded name.

I want you to recieve these money and pay it into your bank account for my
family's safety as it is the only asset/money left for the family. I am
offering 20% for assisting me secure this money fast so that it will not
be located by the Nigerian Government Agents.so that I can forward to
you the certificate of deposite and all neccessary details.I asuring you
100% risk free tansaction. Thank you

.
Her Excellency
Mrs Margret Diepreye Alamieyeseigha


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