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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)
  • "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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • attorneyadeyemi@algerie.cc (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Attoreney Adeyemi <attor206@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: attorneyadeyemi@algerie.cc
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:33:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I wait for your positive answer


Dear Friend,

I am highly delighted to be in contact with you and sorry for the embarrassment this mail might be to you as we have not met or known each other before. I find your contact through my Late friend file Late Mr. Roy J. Bagley
My name is Attorney Adeyemi Ikuforiji Speaker, Lagos State House of Assemble, I was a good friend to Late Mr. Roy J. Bagley, a national of your country, who until his death has no wife no son or daughter to claim his assets hence he was buried here.

He was a contractor and has spent most of his life in Nigeria. Mr. Roy J. Bagley, were involved in a car accident along Benin/Onitsha express road and unfortunately lost his life on the 27th day of July 2007 at Onitsha.Since then I have made several enquiries to your country embassy to locate any of my friends extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful hence he has no next-of-kin at the time of his death. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you since all my effort to trace or locate any member of his family failed me so that you as a foreigner will assist me as my late friend next-of-kin in repatriating the assets and Capital valued at Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($8.5million) left behind by my friend before it gets confiscated by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged as treasury bills.

The Bank in Nigeria has issued me a notice to provide the next of Kin or have the treasury bill confiscated.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of my friend's relatives for over some Months now, I seek the consent to present you as the Next-of-kin, so that the proceeds of this treasury bill can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for claim.I have all the necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for the claim.
All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Reply through my alternative e-mail address: attorneyadeyemi@algerie.cc

I wait for your positive answer.

Best regards,

Attorney adeyemi


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