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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "a reliable and reputable person to handle this" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mac Henry" <mac_henry17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mr_machenry@myway.com
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:35:33 +0100
Subject: From The Desk Of: Mr Mac Henry,

From The Desk Of: Mr Mac Henry,
{Manager}.Urgent Business Partnership.
ATTN:

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.
I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr Mac Henry the
manager with the Intercontinetal Bank of Nigeria Plc Lagos. I came to know
you in my Private Search for a Reliable and Reputable Person to handle this
Confidential Transaction, which involves the transfer of Huge sum of Money
to a Foreign Account requiring Maximum Confidence.You can view thewebsite
www.icbankonlineng.com

THE PROPOSITION:

A Foreigner an Australia, Late Engr. Abbas Gumeri (Snr.) an Oil Merchant
with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death months ago in Kenya
Air Bus (A310-301) Flight KQ431, Banked with us at Intercontinetal Bank of
Nigeria Plc, Lagos and had a closing balance as at the end of September,
2000 worth US$20,500,000.00 (TWENTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES
DOLLARS), the bank now expects a next of kin as beneficiary. Valuable
efforts are being made by theIntercontinetal Bank of Nigeria Plc to get in
touch with any of the Abbas's family or relatives but to no success.

It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any
of Late Engr. Abbas Gumeri (Snr.)' s next kin (He had no wife or children
that is know to us). The Management under the influence of our Chairman and
Members of the Board of Directors, that arrange has been made for the fund
to be declared "Unclaimed" and subsequently be donated to the trust fund for
arms and ammunition to further enhance the course of War in Africa and the
World in General.

In order to avert this negative development some of my trusted colleagues
and I now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to Late
Engr. Abbas Gumeri (Snr.) so that the fund US$20.5 Million will be released
and paid into your account as the beneficiary's next of kin. All documents
and proves to enable you get his fund will be carefully worked out. We have
secure from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased
beneficiaries, and more so we are assuring you that this business is 100%
Risk Free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for myself and my
colleagues for investment purpose. According to agreement within both
parties.

As soon as we receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business proposal, we would furnish you with the
necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suite both parties with out
any conflict. While replying furnish me with your private fax and phone
numbers for easy communication.

The sharing of the fund are thus: 35% for you the account owner,60% for i
and my trusted colleagues and the remainning 5% for expenses for both
parties.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you.

Best regards,
Mr. Mac Henry (Manager).

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