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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:
  • "confidentiality of this transaction" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • nwabuokuofili@steam.to
  • nwabuokuofili@steam.to

Fraud email example:

From: NWABUOKU OFILI <nwabuoku_ofili@web.de>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:51:19 +0200
Subject: MY QUEST FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP





REQUEST FOR URGENT TRANSFER

I must apologize on the strange manner I have jumped into your private e-mail, on my quest for a reliable and trusted partner for a highly important and lucrative venture cum investment.

I came across your contact as a reliable partner for this venture. I am Barrister Nwabuoku Ofili Idaboh, a registered Legal practitioner with federal republic of Nigeria and personal Attorney to Engr. Mark Kelly Schneider.

To highlight you on this proposal, my client operated an account in a bank here in my country, since 1999 till 2002, when he died of cardiac arrest in the Niger Clinic on the 10th of December 2002, after which, he was buried here in Nigeria.

Some days ago, I received a letter from the said Bank that the Late Engr. Mark Kelly Schneider, haven gone through some old files in the records of the bank, It was discovered that my late client has a total sum that was outstanding before his death as (USD 26 Million) Twenty Six Million United States Dollars. For the fact that Engr. Mark Kelly Schneider did not present any information of his next of Kin in the establishment of the said Account, that I am contacted as his personal Attorney on the arrangement to declare the said funds as unclaimed and be transferred into the reserve Account of the bank, it is as a result of this, I am now contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a national with a local bank account here. But can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US dollars and the former owner, a foreigner. I implore you to act as foreigner and beneficiary to the fund as I will then intimate you on the processes abound as well as procure all the nec essary documents required to lay claim to the money.

If you are capable and willing to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit I shall highly appreciate. I need a well trusted person in this business because I do not want to make mistakes, I need your strong assurance and trust. With my position here as the personal Attorney to the late Engr. Mark Kelly Schneider, I will secure the necessary approval in your favor to effect the transfer of this money to any foreigner’s reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my arrival in your country for disbursement. On the alternative, you can come down here to Nigeria for us to meet one to one.

TO EFFECT THIS CHANGE IN YOUR FAVOUR I SHALL REQUIRE YOUR:

1) Your Name in full.

2) Your Full Contact Address.

3) Your Confidential Telephone Number (Mobile)

4) Your Confidential Fax number.


Soon as you receive these funds into your foreign account, or any account of your choice for safe keeping, I will proceed to your country for onward percentage distributions and investment. I need your full co-operation to make this work, because as the personal Attorney to the late Mark Kelly Schneider, the management of the Bank is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner, who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you later immediately. I will use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms of the Bank and foreign exchange departments.


At the conclusion of this business, for your assistance, 25% of the total amount will be accrue for you, 70% for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of the transfer.

I implore you to maintain the absolute confidentiality of this transaction. Your earliest response is urgently awaited and should be forwarded to my confidential e-mail: (nwabuokuofili@steam.to [mailto:nwabuokuofili@steam.to]) as to ensure confidentiality.


Truly Yours,


Barr. Nwabuoku Ofili .









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