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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:
  • "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • ericomarr1@yahoo.se (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:43:33 +0200
Subject: From:Mr.Eric Godwin Pls Urgent Response,


From:Mr.Eric Godwin Pls Urgent Response,

=C2=A0

Dear Good Friend,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal eth=
ics, I am Mr.Eric Godwin Omar. A staff of bill and exchange at the foreig=
n remittance department of my Bank. I am writing you for the second time =
since you did not reply to me at first. However, I am contacting you in o=
rder to ask for your assistance on this confidential business proposal wi=
th full financial benefit for both me and you. Before I go into further d=
etails, please be informed that I am writing without any other person(s) =
pre-knowledge of my contacting you on this transaction. Therefore I will =
appreciate same attitude to be maintained by you all through.This is a to=
p secret that will benefit both our families Members.

In my department I discovered (a file) an abandoned sum of US$17.5M,(Seve=
teen Million, Five Hundred Thousand USD)with account number 14-2558-5976 =
The amount belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with hi=
s wife and only daughter in a plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight numbe=
r 261 which crashed on January 31st 2000. You shall read more about the c=
rash on visiting this site.http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/0/alaska.airline=
s.list/

The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great in=
dustrialist and a resident of Alaska. It is therefore upon this discovery=
that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and for our ban=
k to release the money to you. You have to follow the instruction which I=
will be sending to you as the next of kin or business partner to the dec=
eased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for i=
t and I don't want this money to go into our bank treasury as unclaimed b=
ill.
=C2=A0
The banking laws here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed af=
ter (Nine) years,the money will be transferred into the 'BANK TREASURY'as=
unclaimed FUND.The money has stayed Eight years going to Nine years, How=
ever i have the wholeinformation's about this fund i don't want this fund=
to enter into our BANK TREASURY as unclaimed since it will be the direct=
or and some top officers will remit the fund to their own account. Please=
, i like you to stand as the (Next of kin /relation) to the foreign custo=
mers asking the bank to release the fund to you, I will be feeding you wi=
th any giving question or information BANK may ask you regarding the fund.

This request of foreigner as next of kin, is occasioned by the fact that =
the customer was a FOREIGNER and as an (INSIDER) i cannot stand as next o=
f kin to a foreigner. Furthermore inappreciation of your assistance, I am=
offering you (35%) of the total sum. (5%) for contingencies (cost of tra=
nsfer/other charges) likely may incurred during the course of transaction=
, while the remaining (60%) is for me, note that=C2=A0 this is a top secr=
et only yourself due to i'm still working with the bank and you should no=
t let (any body know) that i'm the one giving you information about this =
FUND.When i read from you I will send to you a written application that y=
ou will send to our bank asking for this money to be transferred to your =
account as the next of kin to the=C2=A0 foreign customers.I will not fail=
to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and all arra=
ngements have been made.

Finally, based on trust and confidence on both side, Please respond me th=
rough this e-mail adress for security reasons.(ericomarr1@yahoo.se) immed=
iately you finish reading this mail with the following information.

1):Your office and home addresses.
2):Your Occupation.
3):Your Age.
4);Your Private Telephone number.
5):Your Nationality.
6):Your Marital Status.
Do give me a call +226 7549 4845 for confirmation of your receipt and und=
erstanding of this
mail.
I await for your favorable response.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Eric Godwin Omar.

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