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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)
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +2348058072260 (Nigeria, 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.
  • wali_ahmed202@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: WALI AHMED <wali@waliahmed.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:26:18 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY/CALL ME


Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Barrister Wali Ahmed the Attorney to Late Mrs. Stela Obasanjo the wife of the President of Nigeria, General Olusegun Obasanjo.

I am sending this email to you to ask you if you can be my partner in this transaction to enable us claim some money which the Late Stella Obasanjo deposited in Security Company in a country which I will disclose to you later as soon as you indicate your interest to be of assistance to me.

Before her sudden death in a hospital in Spain on early hour of 22nd of Oct 2005 where she went for stomach surgery, I helped her as her Attorney to deposit the sum of $6.5 Million which she wanted to use in purchasing landed properties.

I am the only person opportuned to know about the existence of this fund and she warned me before her sudden death not to let any one to know about it even her husband the President.

Why I am asking for your help is because I can not personally go to the security and claim this money because the security company knows me as her Attorney. They can not release the fund to me knowing full well that I am not be owner of the fund. The only way that I can be able to claim the money is by presenting a foreigner as a business partner to Late Stella Obasanjo. Based on this I am soliciting for your help.

Finally, after the deduction of all expenses which everyone of us will incure in the process of this transaction the remaining balance will be shared equally that 50% each.

Please indicate your interest to assist me through this my private email address with your full names, telephone number, age, marital status and nationality;
My Direct Private Telephone Number is +234-80580-72260
Email: wali_ahmed202@excite.com

I await your urgent response.

Yours sincerely,

Barrister Wali Ahmed.

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