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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • leonard_roy77@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "uk lottery" <claims78dept123@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:53:23 +0000
Subject: ASSISTANCE!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
    My name is Mr leonard roy,the personal accountant to Late Mrs,Stella Obasanjo, the wife of the head of state fedral republic of Nigeria  President Olusegun Obasanjo. The late wife of the president Mrs Stella Obasanjo who died in the early hours of Sunday 23rd October 2005 in a spanish hospital while undergoing a cosmo-surgical operation (cosmetic surgery). Before her death she had placed some funds reaching the sum of Twenty Seven Million United States Dollars (U.S.$27,000,000) in a security company in U.K. for the execution of a project tagged "Hope for the less privilegded African child".
  
 The most interesting bit of the story is that this fund was not yet made official, and more so the Security Company handling this fund  does not even know the contents of the consignment in their vault. I happened to know as a result of the official positon I hadled while she was still alive (Personal accountant) to the late first lady Late chief Stella Obasanjo  .
  
The documents of these funds are still in my possesion,and I see this medium as an opprtunity to get the funds out of official awareness and dissemination,and also as a means to enhance our lives for the better cause no one has any knowledge of this funds not even the president.
 
 I here by seek you as a worthy accomplice who would be willing to render assistance in the claiming of these consignments from the security company and also assist in propper utilisation of these funds.
    Please if interested in this transaction, respond with your full contact informations,as a 30% dividend is fully yours on the completion of this transaction.send your reply to leonard_roy77@yahoo.com
 
                                                                                                 Regards
                                                                                                  Mr leonard Roy
NB : here's a link to detailed informations as regarding her obituary.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/obasanjo.obituary/index.html
 AS THIS IMPLIES THAT THERE WOULD BE NO REGRETABLE MOMENTS OF TRANSACTION.  Thanks

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