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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:
  • "ho cambiato indirizzo!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • suleimanwaziri01@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • sulei_manwaziri@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Suleiman=20Waziri?= <suleimanwaziri01@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: sulei_manwaziri@myway.com
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:18:51 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP.


Ho cambiato indirizzo!Puoi ora scrivermi a questo indirizzo: suleimanwaziri01@yahoo.it



- OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE, FEDERAL SECRETARIAT GARKI, NIGERIA. Dear Sir/Ceo, Due to the recent reform in the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, all hands are on deck to checkmate corruption that is why the Economic for financial crime and corruption (EFCC) .My name is Alhaji Suleiman Waziri, I am the director of finance and administration in the federal ministry of finance. I am writing you this mail not because I know you but because I feel you can be able to join me in this business proposal I am about to tell you. My friend Mr.Kahn Silvia,a German, who use to work with me in same office was involve in the bellview air crash a year ago and due to that he was my bosom friend because he had no family here in Nigeria i have tried locating his family or relatives in Germany but to no avail. When he was alive Mr. Kahn opened an account with one of the leading banks here in Nigeria(UNION BANK PLC)with the tone of t!
hirteen million seven hundred thousand dollars(13.7m)and since he died the money has been lying dormant in the bank, I can easily convince the bank and my company that you are the only relation that Mr. Kahn introduced to me, I am telling you all this because the bank wrote to our company to provide the next of kin to the deceased so you can be able to work with me in claiming the money. Since i have been unsuccessful in locating any of the relatives for over a year now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account valued at $13.7million U.Sdollars can be paid to your account and then you and I can share the money. 50%to me and 40% to you, while 10% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require. Your information such as below:1. Your full name 2. Resident Address 3. Telephone/Fax Numbers 4. Occupation 5. Date of Birth. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.!
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me by my private mail address (sulei_manwaziri@myway.com) to enable us discuss further.Yours Faithfully, Alhaji Suleiman Waziri

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