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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:
  • "huge deposit" (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)
  • "million 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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Obi Nwaeke" <mrobinwaeke000000@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:59:29 +0530 (IST)
Subject: PLEASE AKNOWLEGE MY MAIL

I am an Account Officer with Union Bank Plc ,My name is . MR OBI NWAEKE, a
Banker. I am the personal Account
Manager to (Mr.George Hollander ) who was an expertrate contractor with Oil
servicing Firm here in My country. Here in after shall be referred to as my
client,my client passed on 16,1998 in a plane crash. Since then I have made
several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my client's extended
Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.


After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace you over the
Internet hence I contacted you. I
have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my
client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged,
particularly the Union Bank Plc .
Where the deceased had an account Valued at about ($20 Million US Dollars)
has Issued me a notice to provide
the next of kin. Or have the account confiscated within the next ten
official working days.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/ FOR YOUR INFORMATION
BEEN NOT A TAIWANESE WILL NOT POSE ANY PROBLEM FOR THE SUCESSFUL TRANSFER ON
THIS FUNDS INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.


Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years
now, I seek your consent to present
you as the next of kin of the deceased so that this account valued at ($ 20
Million US Dollars) can be paid to
you. The sharing modality is till open and negociatable.All I require is
your honest cooperation to enable us
see this business 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
email and for more details regarding
to this transaction.

Yours
Faithfully,
MR OBI NWAEKE,

Note: If for any reason why you did not
wish to help to this effect, please kindly confide in me so that i can
make another contact, because i can afford to miss this inheritance.

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