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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • sanusi_joseph0101@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "joseph sanusi" <joseph_sanusi@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sanusi_joseph0101@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:57:53 +0500
Subject:

From The Desk Of:
Bar sanusi joseph[s.a.n]
1 victory Road,
Lagos - Nigeria.


dearfriend

Compliments of the season. I am the personal attorney to Late Mr. John
wayne, who used to work with shell
Development
Company in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 1999, my client, his wife and
their
three Children were involved in a car accident along Cha-Cha Express
way.
All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.
My late client currently have the sum of Seventeen Million United
States
Dollars (US$17,000,000:00) cash in vaults under the care of a Security
Company out side Nigeria and I have in my possession, the Personal
Identification Numbers (PIN) Code for the claims.
The security company has recently issued me a notice to provide the
next of
kin to deceased to come forward and claim the fund or have the
$17,000,000:00 confiscated.
Since then I have made several enquiries at your embassy to locate any
of my
clients extended relatives but this has proved unsuccessful. I decided
conduct this search to locate any member of his family or an honest
person
who can stand in as the next of kin to the deceased and beneficiary to
this
fund hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money left behind
by
my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
security company where these huge deposits were lodged, Since I have
been
unsuccessful in locating the relatives, I hereby seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin to the deceased.

so that the $17,000,000:00 can be paid to you as the next of kin
beneficiary.I am ready to give you 40% of the total money if you agree
to
this proposition.
As his attorney, I can position you legally as his next of kin
beneficiary
without any flaw and also provide you with the necessary legal
documents to
back up any claim we may make to the satisfaction of the Security
company.
All I require is your honest co-operation to see us through this deal.I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that
will protect you from any breach of the law.
I am compelled to diversify this inheritance into investments of value
as an
anonymous investor under your supervision if only you will comply with
me.
If you are interested in assisting me, please send me an email so we
can
conclude on the modalities. Please reply back with all your contact
particulars such as your address,telephone and fax numbers so that I
will
get in touch with you.

please reply to this email address sanusi_joseph0101@yahoo.com

Best regards,
sanusi joseph (Esq).

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