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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:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
  • "remmittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • gasake0000@yahoo.com.sg (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • grahamasake011@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?graham=20asake?= <gasake0000@yahoo.com.sg>
Reply-To: gasake000@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:35:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BUISNESS OFFER


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: gasake0000@yahoo.com.sg

MR GRAHAM ASEKE


INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DEPARTMENT,


Victoria Island Branch,


Lagos, Nigeria.


Email address : grahamasake011@yahoo.com.hk



ATTN,



I am MR GRAHAM ASEKE Director with INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DEPARTMENT

Victoria


Island Branch Lagos Nigeria,I have an urgent and very profitable


business proposition for you that should be handled with extreme


confidentiality.



On January 6,1999 a Foreign Oil Consultant and contractor with the


Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr. James Herbert by


name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months


valued at US$38.6M(Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred United States


Dollars Only) in my branch.



Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the


Bank policy to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month


we sent a reminder and finally wediscovered from his contract


employers the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that Mr.


James Herbert died from an automobile accident.



On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a


Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I


therefore made further investigations and discovered that Mr. James


Herbert did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his


official documents including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my


Bank,and according to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 years the


money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if


nobody applies to claim the fund.



This prompted us to contact you.We will like to front you as the next


of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of


the sum of $38.6 million U.S Dollars that is presently in my branch.



I contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own and


operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim


the money .



We have unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sum would be for


you if you agree to take part in this profitable transaction,70% for


me and 2 of my colleagues while the remaining 5% would be used to pay


back the expenses that may be incurred during the course of the


transaction by both parties after the fund has been claimed as the


next of kin.



In the event that you are genuinely interested in the


transaction,there are some information would be needed from you to


commence transaction.



1.FULL NAME



2.CONTACT ADDRESS



3.PHONE / FAX NUMBER.



4.YOUR OCCUPATION / AGE



The transaction is 100% risk free as all modalities has been


perfected to ensure the hitch free success of the transaction.



I await your urgent response to my personal Email address :


Email address : grahamasake011@yahoo.com.hk




THANKS FOR CO-OPERATION



MR GRAHAM ASEKE


Email address : Email address : grahamasake011@yahoo.com.hk


- graham aseke



- graham asake

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