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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:
  • "foreign exchange" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing 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.
  • ogilisigbo@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Dionysius Harry <ogilisigbo@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:14:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: The Chief Auditor Of BCV Bank ( SWITZERLAND).


From Mr. Dionysius Harry
09 route de Maconnex.Genève, 
SWITZERLAND

DETAIL OF THE BUSINESS:

I am Mr. Dionysius Harry, the Chief auditor of BCV Bank  (
SWITZERLAND).There is an account opened in this bank  In 1990 and since
1998 nobody has operated on this  Account again. After going through
some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit
this  money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. The owner 
Of this account is Mr.CHANG KUO-CHENG who died with  his wife and their
only daughter on February16, 1998 in  a plane crash. No other person
knows about this account or  any thing concerning it, the account has
no other  beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well  that
this company does not know anything about this  account, He was the Governor of Taiwan Central (Reserve) Bank. The said amount is  U.S$26.000, 000.00 dollars (twenty Six
Million, US  Dollars).Their death was occurred naturally. Please View  This website: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/.
 
 

I want to first transfer USD Six million United  States Dollars
from this money into a safe foreigne account abroad before the rest,
but I don't know any   foreigner.  I am only contacting you as a
foreigner because this  money cannot be approved to a local bank here,
but can  only be approved to any foreign account because the  money is
in us dollars and the former owner of the account is Mr.CHANG KUO-CHENG
he is a foreigner too.  I know that this message will come to you as a 
surprise as we don't   know ourselves before.We will sign an agreement,
but be sure that it is real and a genuine business. I only got your
contact address from my secretary who operates computer, with believe
in God that you will  never let me down in this business. You are the
only  person that I have contacted in this business; so  please reply
urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take immediately.  
Send also your private telephone and fax number  Including the full
details of the account to be used  for the deposit. I want us to meet
face to face or sign a binding  agreement to bind us together so that 
you can receive this money into a foreign account or  any account of
your choice where the fund will be  safe. And I will fly to your
country for withdrawal and sharing and other investments.
 
I need  truthful person in this business because I don't want  to
make mistake I need your strong assurance and  trust. With my position
now in the office I can transfer this  money to any foreigner's
reliable account, which you  can provide with assurance that this money
will be  intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing.
 
I will use my    position and influence to effect legal approvals
and  onward transfer of   this money to your account with  appropriate
clearance forms of the ministries and foreign exchange departments. At
the conclusion of  this business, you will be given 35% of the total  
amount, 60% will be for me,   while 5% will be for expenses both
parties might have  incurred during the process of transferring.
 
Please If I reach you as I am hopeful I will, endeavor to get back
to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job, you should
forward along your current telephone and Fax numbers, your current
mailing address. You can contact me through my private email address:ogilisigbo@yahoo.com
 
Yours truly,    
Mr. Dionysius Harry

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