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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
• 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.
  • +2348029495519 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • julius_mike117@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "julius mike" <julius_mike1@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:14:59 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY

Diamond bank limited
From The Desk Of
Mr. Julius Mike
julius_mike117@yahoo.com
Dear Sir/Madam
I am Mr. Julius Mike of the Diamond bank limited. I am the personel
Account Manager of Mr.Barry Kelly ,a nationale of your country, who used
to work with Shell Petrolum Development Company here
in Nigeria.
On the 22nd Sept, 1997,our customer,and his wife and their three children
were involved in a car accident along sagamu express road. All occupants of
the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then
I have made severalenquiries to your embassy to locate any of his extended
relatives but this has also proved unsuccessful.
I am contacting you now to assist in repartrating the money and property
left behind by our customer before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by our bank where he deposited twenty five million
united states dollars sum off US$25 million dollars in our
bank the Diamond bank limited.
The banking guidelines of our bank stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed for over a period of years and few months, with the account
unservicable the money will be confisicated and this will
happen after the next Year if nobody comes for the money. Since.we have not
seen any body for the money and his property for the last 9 years and our
bank has been notifying the Rotary club for the past
3 year,may I now seek your consent to present yourself as the next of kin of
the deceased ,so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$25 million
dollars can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money.
I guarantee that this will be executed underlegitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law. Please, kindly get in touch with me
through the above email address or the contact numbers +2348029495519
also indicated.
Best regards,
Mr. Julius Mike
julius_mike117@yahoo.com

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