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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:
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Dayo Raymond <classified724@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <invest600@excite.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:42:06 +0100
Subject: Last Notice...Awaiting your confirmation!!!



Good Day,

I am a principal executive officer of one of the top banks in Lagos, Nigeria. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our banks management six years ago. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential. I am contacting you to solicit for your assistance to help me safeguard funds amounting to Fifteen million, three hundred and twenty thousand United States dollars left by one of our deceased customers whose relatives could not be traced, as he died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an open beneficiary mandate. You will be presented as the Next-Of-Kin to the deceased to enable our institution transfer the money to you as the legitimate legal beneficiary.

We share the proceeds 60% for me, and 40% for you. I will give you more details about the transaction when I receive your affirmative response.

I look forward to hearing from you soonest.

Yours faithfully,

Dayo Raymond.
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