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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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2347031219063
• 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.
  • mrcasselbuston@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms Brenda Haziz" <missbrenda01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:08:28 +0100
Subject: FROM :Miss Brenda Haziz. Reply if you a trustworthy and a good person.


Dear Friend,

I Miss Brenda Haziz a staff of First Bank Nigeria Plc was
mandated by MR. CASSEL BUSTON the CEO/MD of the First Bank
Nigeria Plc to ascertain your interest and capability to
co-operate with us in actualizing this highly rewarding
project on repatriation of funds to your country. Are you
willing to be presented as a bonafide beneficiary to (Mr.
Floyd Luis ) a crude oil merchant from Portugal? Until his
untimely death by the Niger-Delta Militant Crisis in Nigeria
here. (Mr. Floyd) operated a fixed Deposit Account of Eight
Million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
(US$.8,100,000.00) with First Bank Plc.

Sequel to his death, the bank concerted effort to contact
the immediate family in Portugal in order to re-claim and
transfer the ownership of the fund. Unfortunately, the bank
discovered recently that the same Niger-Delta Crisis while
on holidays also affected the immediate families of the
depositor Mr. Floyd.

Apparently, the fund is now in full custody of the bank.
After a very serious survey, I and the Manager of the Bank
decided to repatriate this fund to a trustworthy and
reliable overseas bank account for high yield investment
portfolios. The modality of disbursing the fund will be
discussed fully with the Bank-Account owner/provider, which
we are offering you.

All the documents establishing the deposit of the fund and
empowering you to be the Beneficiary/Receiver of the fund
will be perfectly secured in your name if interested in
helping secure the fund. Transfer of this fund can be
swiftly and successfully implemented within 14 bank working
days (2 Weeks) if you provide the necessary overseas
infrastructure required to realize the objective.

Please kindly protect my position in my bank; by keeping
everything secret and confidential, until we transfer these
funds to your destination.

Contact my boss MR.CASSEL BUSTON the CEO/MD of First Bank
Nigeria Plc through his private E-mail address/Phone:

E-mail: mrcasselbuston@gmail.com

Mobile Phone: +2347031219063

Sincerely
Miss Brenda J Haziz

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