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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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Richard Ogu" <richardogu1@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:52:37 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend

Dear Friend,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. For I know this may seem like a complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my option of communication. This note might seem strange or probably untrue considering the amount of junk mails we receive daily, but I believe this is still the most genuine way of contacting a true character.

I will introduce myself as THE ACCOUNT AND ORDITING MANAGER FOREIGN EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT well-known bank here in NIGERIA. As stated above I am seeking your cooperation to present you to my bank as the Next of kin to LATE ANDREA SCHRANNER. A Germany property Magnate Andreas Schranner, 64, his wife Maria, 62, their daughter Andrea Eich, 38, her husband Christian, 57, and their children Katharina, eight, and Maximilian, 10, all perished in the jet.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

PROPOSITION:

One of late Andrea Schranner's accounts with holding balance of $25,000,000(Twenty Five Million Dollars) has been dormant and has not been operated for the past 5 years and the DEPOSIT will UNCLAIMED DEPOSIT due to dormancy and therefore forfeited if nobody comes forward to lay claim to the deposit before the end of this financial quarter, as is the practice and also indicated in our banking guidelines.

From my investigations and confirmation, the owner of this account a foreigner by name Late Andrea Schranner's died on MONDAY, 31 JULY, 2000 in a plane crash with his family.

After going through the deceased records and files, I discovered that:

(1) No one has operated this account since 2000
(2) He died without a heir; hence the money has been floating.
(3) No other person knows about this account and there was no known beneficiary.

And if we do not remit this money urgently, it would be confiscated and forfeited for nothing. I decided to find a reliable foreign partner to have this deal with. I thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the deceased and funds released to you after due processes have been followed.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is a legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundering, terrorism or any other illegal act. On your interest, let me hear from you.

Regards,

Richard Ogu

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