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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "a reliable and reputable person to handle this" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
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Fraud email example:

From: "Office Desk" <officedesk05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: office2@o2.pl
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:43:03 +0000
Subject: DEAREST

JAMES OKEYEH

Dear Friend,

I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue if
it's nature has being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
perturb, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.
We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,as we
have been reliably informed of your discreteness and ability in transactions
of this kind likewise your business acumen upon this may be higher or in
other hands lower.

I started by first to introduce myself to you. I am Mr.James Okeyeh an
Accountant General in the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.I came to know of you in
my private search for a reliable and Reputable person to handle this
confidential transaction.

THE PROPOSITION:
Late Engineer Johnson Gillespie, one of the foreign Federal Government
Contractors with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death years
ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here in Union Bank Plc. and had
an equivalent deposited balance of thirteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars which mine bank head office is now questioning and
expecting the said dormant fund to be claimed by any available foreigner
that may show up nor any available next-of-kin of the Late beneficiary or
alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and
Ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria.Great efforts and
endeavors has being made by the Bank empire to get in touch with any of the
Gillespie family or relatives but proved to unavailable. It is because of
the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late Engr.
Johnson Gillespie's next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children) that the
management under the influence of our empire and member of the board of
rectors, retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu, that an arrangement be made
for the funds to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE"and subsequently be donated to the
Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in
Africa and the world in general.

In order to avert this negative development, so of my trusted colleagues and
I are now to seek your permission to have you standby as a next-of-kin to
Late Engr.Johnson Gillespie so that the thirteen Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars would be totally and carefully released and
paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next-of-kin. All documents,
proves and evidence to enable this fund to get into your account will be
carefully worked out and more so on behalf of my colleagues, I James Okeyeh
the accountant that works were this huge sum were lodged are assuring you of
a 100% risk free involvement.

HOW TO SHARE IT WHEN IT IS DUE:
Your share stays while the rest would be for my colleagues and I. We have
agreed that, the funds will be carefully shared this way of business
oath/barrier, after it has been transferred into your account, 40% of the
money will goes to you for acting as the beneficiary of the funds and also
for been the account owner were the huge sum will be transferred into while
60% will goes to us the originators of the transaction.

Finally, if this proposal is OK by you if you do not wish to take undue
advantage of the proposal, we have agreed to partner with you nor your
company and also to bestow you and your family even your company, then
kindly get to me immediately for us to pursue this opportunity due to
the matter of urgency.

FOR THE TRANSFER:
There is absolute need that you must furnishing me with your most
confidential telephone, fax number and exclusive bank particulars so that I
can use this information to apply for the release and subsequent transfer of
the funds in your favor. Thank you in advance for your maximum co-operation
and please get back to me ASAP.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.James Okeyeh.

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