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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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2214010781 (Senegal, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • ndoip@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Norman Doip" <normandoip@doip.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ndoip@katamail.com
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:22:21 +0200
Subject: The Facts

Confidential and Urgent From Mr. Norman Doip
Dear Sir/Madam,
URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Email:ndoip@katamail.com
Phone:+221 4010781

Firstly I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of the nature as being utterly confidential.Hence i have decided

to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction. I am Norman Doip from the African Development Bank Senegal,On June 6, 1999, an American

Oil contractor, Mr. Charles Ball made a fixed deposit for twelve months,valued at €5,500,000.00 Euros Five million, Five hundred thousand

Euros)in my branch upon maturity.

We sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.A month after, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his

contract employers,the Petroleum Corporation that Mr.Charles Ball died in the plane crash On October 31, 1999,(an Egypt air Boeing 767 Flight

990)with other passengers on board.

Upon this discovery, I seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased so that the funds Five million, Five hundred

thousand Euros) can be released and paid into your account as the next of kin otherwise the fund will be returned to the treasury as unclaimed

funds which will subsequently be reverted to the ownership of the Senegal government and will be donated to the trust fund for arms and

ammunition to further enhance the course of war in the World.


Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Charles Ball so that the fruit of this

man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt Government officials.Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our

mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following:

1. Your full Names
2. Your complete mailing address
3. Your private Telephone and fax numbers
4. Your private email address

The paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as the branch manager guarantees the successful execution of

this transaction.Upon your response, I shall provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the

transaction.I advice that a healthy degree of caution be exercised before conclusions are reached by your goodself. If this proposal is

acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed on you.
I will appreciate your sincere response.

Warm regards,
Mr. Norman Doip

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