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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:
  • "million us 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)
  • "is highly confidential" (they don't want anyone to point out to you that this is a scam)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Lawrence Adeniyi" <lawadeniyi_16@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: lawrenceadeniyi_3@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:34:12 +0000
Subject: From Mr.Lawrence,

ATTN,

I am Mr. Lawrence Adeniyi, I am the Manager in the Department of accounts
division, Assurance Bank Limited, Marina branch Lagos-Nigeria.We discovered
an abandoned sum of (21.5m USD) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his family on 25/07/2001 in a plane
crash.

After waited for over (4) Four years without any positive enquire from
anyone in respect of the great German victim of the FLIGHT AF4590 CRASH
include all 109 people on board when the CONCORDE PLANE crashed into the
Hotelissimo on 25/07/2002.

TRAGEDY OF THE GREAT FAMILY WIPED OUT IN THE CRASH]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Great Andreas Schranner
and his wife Maria together with their daughter Andrea Eich all perished in
the concode jet on 25TH JULY, 2002.

Sincerely, the above named deceased was with me personally in 1999 when he
opened an account with our bank(Assurance Bank Limited) in Nigeria with the
total sum of (21.5m USD)appointing me as his personal account officer in
charge of credit and foreign bills to his account. Since his death, I have
personally waited/watched with keen interest to identify the next of kin to
the deceased both in BBC and CNN NEWS but all my efforts has proved
abortive.

After praying and having a second thought over this great opportunity, I
therefore decided to transfer this fund out of our bank with immediate
effect for further investment as no one has come to claim his fund and no
other person knows about this account except me, the Bank Manager and you
alone. I have secretly discussed this matter with the General Manager {GM}
of the bank whom I must involve in order to have a smooth and successful
transfer of the fund to any foreign bank account which you are going to
nominate. We agreed to start the first transaction with USD$6M {Six Million
US Dollars only}. Even an empty account without any money in it, can serve
in this transaction provided you are the only signatory to the a/c; to avoid
any third party from your side.

BUT before we proceed, we must have a Mutual Engagement and Strong Binding
Agreement between both of us, so that you will never deny me in future or
let me down when this fund reaches to your destination account. Perhaps, Due
to the Authentic and Legality of this particular transaction, You should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized
within 7 to 9 banking days, after you would have apply to the bank as the
only beneficiary of the fund from the deceased. For further information,
contact me via my email address.Remember, our banking ethics here does not
allow such HUGE money to stay more than six years without claim hence the
money will be recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed after this
long period of domancy.

Please be informed that your extreme discretion is required. If this
interests you, please reply me directly by email and indicate your full
name, your address, Date of Birth, Your contact Telephone and fax numbers
respectively. Upon receipt of your response, I will prepare a Text of
Application you will send to my Bank Headquarters for payment approval in
your favor.

Looking forward for a mutual beneficial and long lasting partnership.
I remain Mr Lawrence Adeniyi.
***************************************************************************************************
NOTE: This message is highly confidential . If, for any reason, you are not
capable of handling this REAL and GENUINE transaction, get to my knowledge
and don't disclose it to anyone else Pls.

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