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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:
  • "await your urgent response" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • paulralph_unionbankplc1@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MR. PAUL E. RALPH" <paulralph_unionbankplc1@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:12:27 -0400
Subject: Attention: Sir/Madam, your's response is needed.urgently.

Mr. Paul Ralph Manager Internal Audit/- Foreign Remittance Dept,
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc,
Victoria Island, Lagos.

Attention: Sir/Madam,

I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database in the Internet, my name is Mr. Paul Ralph' An account officer to late Mr. Morris Thompson from America who is an oil merchant Agent here in Nigeria, a well known Philanthropist before he died, he made a Will stating that $13.2M(Thirteen million, two hundred thousand U.S. dollars only) should be given to an citizen of our choice overseas.

I have made a random draw and your e-mail address was picked as the beneficiary to this Will. I am particularly interested in securing this money from the Bank because they have issued a notice instructing me been the account officer to produce the beneficiary of this Will within two weeks or else the money will be credited to the Government treasury as per law here.

It is my utmost desire to execute the Will of my late client Mr. Morris Thompson since he is no more alive, both wife Thelma Thompson, and daughter Sheryl Thompson.

Please for more details concerning him and how he died, you can visit this website: www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ If you are interested, you are required to contact me immediately with your Name and Telephone number to start the documentation process with the help of a legal practitioner.
I urge you to contact me immediately for further details bearing in mind that the Bank has given us a date limit, Please act fast.

Contact me through my private E-mail : (paulralph_unionbankplc1@yahoo.es)
I await your urgent response.

Mr. Paul Ralph
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.

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