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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348060097211 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "peter frank" <peterfrank005@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: peter_fxx@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:46:41 -0700
Subject: VERY CONFIDENTIAL.

FROM THE DESK OF:DR,PETER FRANK
STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC
LAGOS NIGERIA.
PHONE NUMBER:+2348060097211



VERY CONFIDENTIAL.

I am the manager of Foreign Account Department of the Standard trust Bank
Plc. I am writing you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation
to carry out this transaction. We discovered an abandoned Sum of
US$20Million
(Twenty Million U.S Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign
customer who died along side his entire family in November 2002 in a plane
crash in Lagos.Since

this development, we have advertised for his next kin or any close relation
to come forward to claim this money, but nobody came to apply for the claim.
To this effect, I and two other officials in my department 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. We need a foreign partner to apply
for the claim because of the fact that the customer was a foreigner. And
we dont want this money to go into the banks treasure as unclaimed
fund.Every
document to affect this process will emanate from table and I will perfect
every document to be in accordance with the banking law and guidelines so
you have nothing to worry about.

All we require from you is to provide a bank account in your name or your
company name where the money will be transferd to and deposited. We have
agreed that 30% of the money will be for you, 10% for expenses incurred
on the both side while 60% will be for my colleagues and I. If you are going
to help me, indicate by replying this letter and putting in your bank
particulars,

private telephone and fax numbers.
I await your immediate reply to enable us start this transaction in earnest.
Once I receive your reply, I will send you the modalities for immediate
application of claim.

Thanks for your anticipated assistance. You can reply through my
private email:

Yours faithfully,
PETER FRANK

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