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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • aliyu_moh@rediffmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ALIYU MOHAMMED <aliyu_moh55@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <aliyu_moh@rediffmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:09:03 +0000
Subject: Altmost Secrecy And Sincerity





Dear Sir/Madam, I am Mr. ALIYU MOHAMMED an employee at the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc Lagos,Nigeria. In my Department I discovered an abandoned sum of S$24.5M (Twenty four million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his family in November 2001 in an auto crash. Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guide lines and laws but unfortunately I learnt that his wife and only child died alongside with him at the auto crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as respect to the provision of a foreign account 5% for any expenses incurred, and 65% be for me. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application.I will not fail to bring to your notice that all required arrangements have been made for the transfer, as i am the account officer in charge of the decease's account.I will need your response, in order to grant you access to the detailed facts and figures to this account. I will need a phone number to reach you. I look forward to an excellent business relationship with you, reply imediately to my alternative email:aliyu_moh@rediffmail.com Best Regards,ALIYU MOHAMMED.
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