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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:
  • "a project that will be very beneficial to both of us" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (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.
  • +2348056064158 (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.
  • kolawill003@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Kola Williams" <kolawilliams105@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kolawill003@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:02:29 +0000
Subject: Good day

Good day

Next of kin required

I have the honor and confidence to introduce you to this business in view of
the fact that you are trustworthy and reliable. I am Dr. Kola Williams. I
work in the Audit Department of WEMA BANK PLC LAGOS NIGERIA. Forgive my
indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and through this
media. Please I am contacting you for a real business transaction, which I
will like to discuss about maturely.

Please I hope my letter will not embarrass you since we have not had any
previous communication or encounter, though business is all about trust and
opportunity. I hope you will read this email with all the objectivity it
deserves and then react accordingly. I have decided to contact you on a
project that will be very beneficial to both of us based on trust despite
that we have not had any previous meeting and also i want you to know that
my main objectives of contacting you is not based on the fact that you realy
have any relationship with this person but based on trust that i have in
you.

There is an account opened in our bank in 1990 but since 2002 nobody has
operated on this account again. After a private investigation I discovered
that the owner of this account was a director with a contruction company
here in my country by name (Eleme Contruction Co.LTD) who was among the
people that died in the lagos 2002 bomb blast at the ikeja cantolment amy
barracks, he died without having a beneficiary to this account. My
investigation proved to me also that nobody from the company knows about
this account. The amount contained in this account is us11,950,000.00. It is
my wish and intention to take this fund abroad for investment instead of the
bank to have it transferred into their reserve account for the personal use
as unclaimed funds.

View for incident of the bomb blast

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACOS-64BF8V?OpenDocument

I will need you to set up a new account for this transfer and send to me or
you might send an existing account with no fund in it for us to use. We will
use normal banking procedures to transfer the fund legally. I will bring my
position and influence to facilitate transfer immediately by legal means.
What I request is absolute secrecy and confidentiality. And that you will
never disappoint me when fund is transferred to your account. There is no
risk to this business, as we will follow the normal banking procedure. I
want you to know that every documentation regards this transfer will be done
legaly by an attorney that will contacted to represent you in this claim.
You are to furnish me with the below information's that the attorney will
use to commence immediate documentation on the transfer.

1) Your full names and address
2) Direct and personal phone number
3) Copy of any id

Contact me urgently at kolawill003@yahoo.fr or call me on my number
+234-805-6064158 for the way forward.

Sincerely,

Dr. Kola Williams

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