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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:
  • "hundred thousand us 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)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• 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.
  • +2348026015413 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • eatonbill20@yahoo.com
  • citizensbank05@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Bill Eaton <eatonbill20@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: citizensbank05@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:10:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONTACT MR BILL EATON FOR MORE DETAILS OR SEND YOUR PHONE # TO REACH


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: eatonbill20@yahoo.com

I CONTACT YOU IN REGARD OF $18M WILLED TO you BY ENG LEWIS.CALL FOR DETAILS:0023-802-691-5413 Bill

- Dr.Bill Eaton Senior Supervisor Audit and Compliance Group. Citizens Int'l Bank Plc Tel:00234-802-601-5413 Attention My Good Friend, Greetings to you! LETTER OF MUTUAL COOPERATION I am grateful to reach you at last after making so much frantic effort to inform you of your inheritance with our Bank. First and foremost, i will like to introduce myself as Dr Bill Eaton. I am a banker and an accountant with Citizens Int'l Bank Nigeria Plc. I was the account Officer to Late Engineer (Lewis), a National of your country, who was a contractor with the Department of Petroleum Resources, Victoria Island, Lagos. Who herein after shall be referred to as my client on the 30th January 2000, was involved in the Kenyan Airways Flight crash with registration number 5Y-Ben alongside his wife and two children. This plane departed Nairobi to Lagos on that fateful day and all the family died in this fatal air crash on the 30th January 2000. Since then, i have been trying to trace my clients family members to no avail. I also tried the Embassy without success. After several unsuccessful attempts, i decided to trace the last name over the internet. This is why i contacted you. My reason for contacting you is to help in repatriating the money and properties left behind by my late client before it is confiscated by the government or the bank where this huge money is lodged, particularly CITIZENS INT'L BANK NIGERIA PLC where the deceased had an account valued at US$18.8M (EIGHTEEN MILLION AND EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS). The bank has issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin or have the account confiscated within the next fifteen working days. Since i have been unable to locate the family members for the past seven years running, i seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to my late client since you have the same last name so that the proceeds from this account valued at US$18.8M can be paid to you. Then after, we can share the money 50% each after IRS has been deduction. The transfer expenses will be shared equally too. All i require of you now is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and i from any breach of the law. also send to me your most private telephone number to enable me call you for more information if the need arises. note:i recommend you send your respond to my most private email for confidential reasons and because of my position here in the bank. Sincerely Yours, Dr Bill Eaton Please visit this site for confirmation: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin. crash/index.html PRIVATE E-MAIL citizensbank05@gmail.com

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