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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.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • ofu@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ofu Prince" <ofu_2000@msn.com>
Reply-To: 0fu@myway.com
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:53:29 +0000
Subject: HELP ME

30 FALOMO ROAD
OFF KIKANWA ST
OGONI
RIVERS STATE
EMAIL:ofu@myway.com

DEAR FRIEND,

THE PLANE CRASH WHICH TOOK PLACE ON 23/10/05 HAS IN NO DOUBT LANDED ME IN A
SITUATION WHERE I CANNOT BELIEVE MYSELF.
WELL, MY NAME IS PRINCE NZE OFUOKWU A FINAL YEAR STUDENT OF PETROCHEMICAL
ENGINEER FACULTY OF ENGINEER IN THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN.

MY FATHER, CHIEF MR NZE OFUOKWU HAPPEN TO BE ONE OF THE VICTIM OF THE PLANE
CRASH AND BEFORE HIS DEATH,THERE WAS A LITTLE PROBLEM BETWEEN HIM AND HIS
FAMILY CLAN VIA COMMUNITY OVER AN OIL WIG FOUND ON HIS PORTION OF LAND
ALLOCATED TO HIM (MY FATHER) WHICH HE INHERITED FROM MY GRANDFATHER. SO THIS
LITTLE GRODGE HAS BEEN TRANSFERED TO ME SINCE THE INCIDENT TOOK PLACEAND MY
POOR MOTHER NOW A WIDOW HAS BEEN IN A MOURNING SITUATION.

PLEASE MY DEAR BROTHER, MY KNEES ARE ON THE GROUND BEGGING AND AT THE SAME
TIME APPEALLING FOR THE SUM OF $300 TO JOIN TO THE ONE GIVEN TO ME BY WELL
WISHERS TO PAY FOR MY ACCEDEMICS ROUND UP.

AS YOU DO THIS FOR ME GOD WHO IS IN HEAVEN WILL SURLY REWARD YOU. MOREALSO,
I WILL CONTACT YOU WHEN I AM TROUGH WITH MY ACCEDEMICS PURSUIT AS ENGINEER.
BY THIS END, YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CAKE AS A SHARE OF THE OIL PROPORTIONED TO MY
LATE FATHER SINCE I AM THE ONLY SURVIVING MALE CHILD.

THANK YOU IN ANTICIPATION OF YOUR HELP.

PRINCE N.OFUOKWU.

STUDENT.

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