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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 friend" (a common phrase found 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.
  • youngofo30@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "youngofo200" <youngofo200@terra.com.mx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:52:05 -0600
Subject: URGENT REPLY



Dear Friend,
My name is Mr.Young Ofo I work in the credit and accounts department of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc,Lagos, Nigeria.

I write you in respect of a foreign customer with our bank, before his sudden death.His name is Mr.A Long,He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria in the year 2002.Sir,since the demise of this our customer, Mr A.Long who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer.

You can find out more on this site www.dawodu.com/aluko14.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968616.stm He had only $18mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded.
It is only an insider that could produce the code or password of the deposit particulars.Asitstands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the needed information other than my very self considering my position in the bank as his account officer.

Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of kin,
I hereby ask for your co operation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you.You should contact me through my alternative email account: youngofo30@myway.com and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

By this doing,what is required of you is to send an application laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the deceased officially to the director of our bank.

I will need your full name and address,telephone and fax number for the processing of the transfer in your name and favour. Finally i want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a Nigerian cannot represent as next of kin.

Contact me then we shall discuss on how the money will be split between us.Trusting to hear from you,

I remain Respectfully yours,
Best Regard,
Mr.Young Ofo.
Kindly reply to: youngofo30@myway.com

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