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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +2348063127631 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: williams daniel <dan_opportunity@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: dan24@babbalu.com
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 02:40:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE


Dear Friend,
How are you and your family today??I hope you all are doing fine. My name is Mr Dan Williams a South Africa born in South Africa 55 years ago to a muslim mother from Sudan and father from South Africa.I am presently and currently working and living in nigeria.I am working in the research and verification department of FIRST ATLANTIC BANK OF NIGERIA PLC which i am the database manager for the past 21 years now and nothing to show for my hard work as i am still poor.
I wish to introduce and seek your help for a business Relationship.There is one of our customer MR DANZEL LATRATIZZ who died in a plane crash when he came from his country Holland to complete his construction contract that was given to him by the Nigerian Goverment.

When he completed his Job,our Bank was asked to pay Mr Danzel Latratizz a sum of $10.5m US dollars after the Money was credited into his account because he bank with us and also has an account with us.He told the manager of our bank fo transfer the money into his account in holland because he was to travel to another state in nigeria to get another contract.
This sad news came to our bank that Mr latratizz died in a plane crash when he was travelling to another state in nigeria to take up another contact in Abuja the new capital of nigeria.As soon as this happened,the Bank closed up his accounts and told us at the Research and Verification deparment of the Bank to look into his account which i am the head of this department.
After careful study of the computer system and next of kin database records of Mr Danzel Latratizz,I found out that there was no next of kin.This means that there is no family or anybody who will claim this money for him when he dies.so i decided to Hide this Part of information from the bank and now the bank has asked me to forward his next of kin to them for them start the process of transfering the money into his next of kin accounts.

So i myself has taken this opportunity to look for you so that you can act as his next of kin and claim the funds into your Foreign Account.With my connections,power,and as the head of this department,I will fill your informations as the next of kin to Mr Danzel Latratizz in the database which is still empty and this will be after you have agreed to help me.
I will give you 10% of this $10.5m US dollars to you if you can really help me out on this.I strongly assure you that this project is real, safe,legal,and most importantly,100% risk free provided you keep it highly confidential and ultmost secrecy until it is successfully completed then i will tender my resignation letter to the bank and travel down to your country with my family to live and also invest.

I also want you to advise me on what to invest my share in when the money is transfered into your account and when i arrive your country which will be highly profitable for me and my family.Please kindly Give a reply on this to know if you can help out as soon as possible because the bank is waiting for me to bring forward the next of kin to the late Mr Danzel Latratizz.Also kindly give me your personal telephone number for easier communication.
Feel free to call me on this number +234-8063127631.
Expecting your soonest response.
All correspondence should be directed to my private email below:
Email:dan24@babbalu.com
Yours faithfully,
Mr Dan Williams.


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