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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "search for a reliable person" (a common phrase found 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.
  • drdemoso07@jmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dr Demola Sogunle <drsogunle126@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <drdemola@myway.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:22:03 +0400
Subject: From :Dr.Demola Sogunle


From :Dr.Demola SogunleHead, Treasury & Financial Services Department.IBTC CHARTERED BANK PLC. E-mail:drdemoso07@jmail.co.za,

Dear Friend,

First I must solicit your confidence in this letter to you, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a proposal letter of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried due to the spam/scam mails that goes across the globe, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency needed, as I have been reliably aware of your discreetness and ability in transaction of this nature.

My name is Mr.Demola Sogunle, Head, Treasury & Financial Services department. with Ibtc Chartered Bank Plc, I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person to handle a confidential transaction on my behalf , i write in respect of a foreign customer with Current A/C number:14-2558-2004,who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the money. You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site; http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ .

The owner of this account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great industrialist and a resident of Alaska. Since the death of this our customer Mr. Morris Thompson, I have kept a close monitoring of the deposit records and accounts since then. Nobody has come forward to claim the money in this A/C as next of kin to the late Mr. Morris Thompson. The total amount in the account US$28.1 million and it is a domiciliary escrow bank account. It is only an insider, the account owner or a next of kin who has information about the account that could produce the Code or password of the deposit particulars. Also the funds can only be released to a foreigner. I am willing to share this money with you in the ratio of 55% -40%. You shall have 40% of the funds and I shall share the rest with my partner at the bank. while the remaining 5% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be incurred during the course of the transaction by both parties after the fund has been claimed as the next of kin.Please I require you to send to me your information’s as stated below for an easy and well secured communication:

Full Name............... Contact Address...................Date of Birth............ Occupation.......................Phone number............ Mobile phone......................Fax......................

I wait for your urgent response. This is my private e-mail (drdemoso07@jmail.co.za)

Regards.Dr.Demola SogunleE-mail:drdemoso07@jmail.co.za

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