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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:
  • ",000,000" (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.
  
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • jamesoliver2_ng@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: JAMES OLIVER <zm728ynfoo@testzimbra.com>
Reply-To: JAMES OLIVER <jamesoliver5_ng@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE,LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.


Greetings,

I am asking for your assistance to claim this inheritance fund belonging to my late client (Name Withheld) before the bank will confiscate the funds. A foreign expatriate died of overdose on Friday the 15Th of February, 2008 after taking some of his usual drug "CASODEX" .This drug is used for cancer treatments because he has been a cancer patient for over 9 years. He had US$7,000,000 in his domiciliary account with an oil firm (NNPC) here in Africa. Since his death, the fund has been unclaimed because i have not been able to locate any of his relatives abroad, and now the oil firm and the government have been contacting me as his attorney here in Nigeria, and they are also threatening to confiscate the fund if i do not present someone as beneficiary.

Please, if you are interested, sincere and ready to assist me with this claim, do respond to this message so i can give you the detailed information on how to proceed on this inheritance claim. Thank you.

Sincerely,

James Oliver
Attorney at law (ESQ).
jamesoliver2_ng@yahoo.com

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