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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)
  • "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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • johnsongabriel924@googlemail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: johnsongabriel924@googlemail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:03:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: VERY URGENT


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:johnsonmr.gabriel@yahoo.com.co



- - - Dear Friend, I Am Mr. Gabriel Johnson the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department in a Bank. Actually, I have a very urgent & confidential Business Proposition for you and our overall mutual interest.On the 6th of March 2001, our Customer, an American National, late Jeffrey Collman, an Oil Merchant / Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, deposited, a valued amount of US$32Million in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarded address but got no reply. After a month we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers NNPC, that late Jeffrey Collman, until his death five years ago in a terrorist attack to American Airlines Flight 11,from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) with 86 people on board.All occupants of the Aeroplane unfortunately lost their lives. On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his Next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that late Jeffrey Collman, did not declare any Next of kin in all his official documents. This sum of US$32Million is still floating in the bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one has come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian Laws, at the expiration of 7years, the money will revert to the Ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Consequently, my proposal is that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in as a Next of kin to late Jeffrey Collman. This is simple. All I require is your honest and co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I will want you to send to me in your return mail the following information for the transfer in your favor. 1.) Your full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund. (2.) Your contact address. (3.) Your private phone and fax numbers,(4.)Your age.(5.)Your sex.(6.) Your occupation(s). N/B: I, the Originator of the Fund will take 60% of the transferable Fund,you as the Manager of the Fund will take 40% of the transferable Fund. Most importantly, CONFIDENTAILITY will be our watch word in this transaction.You have to use this medium to promise me that you will not in anyway expose the content of this transaction to anybody be it your Friends,Colleagues and Co-Workers. I will also want you to send your reply to johnsongabriel924@googlemail.com as soon as you get this mail to enable us discuss on the modalities and processes for success of this transaction. Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and understanding. I wait for your kind response.Remain blessed. Mr. Gabriel Johnson

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