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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:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: mike ogbuji <barr_ogbuji_esq@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:20:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear VICTIMNAME VICTIMNAME I await your urgent response.


Dear VICTIMNAME VICTIMNAME

Many thanks for accepting to assist me in this transaction, I hope you can also assist me in getting a place in your country were I will invest my own share of the money.

My name is mike ogbuji, Please I need you to send me your information’s, so I can start procuring the documentations from the offices involved, to make you stand as the bonafide next of kin of this funds all i need from you now is your information’s, so i can go to the high court here and the finance house were this funds is presently deposited to procure the needed documents that will make you stand as the bonafid beneficiary next of kin of this funds, and to make everything legal.

Send me your full names,age, your address, and your tell/fax,no. so i can start up the procurement of the documentations.

It will cost me about $21,500 to procure the needed documents in the high court here as well as the finance house were the funds is presently deposited to make you stands as the next of kin of this said funds , but do not worry about the fees for the procurement of these documents, I will do my best to borrow some money to add to the one I have on me to enable me complete it to make up the fees needed for the procurement of the documentations, as soon as I am through with the procurement of the documentations, I will scan copies of these said documents and send to you, and copies of these documents will equally be sent to the finance house were this funds is presently being deposited, after which I will give you the information of the finance house, so you can contact the finance house requesting them to release the funds to you as you are standing as the bonafide next of kin.

Please I want you to keep this transaction secret, until this funds is being transferred to you from the finance house, for security reasons please.

I await your urgent response.
Regards
Barr mike ogbuji


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