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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:
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • amity77bank@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Edwuardo" <emilomankah@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: amity77bank@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:25:16 +0200
Subject: Urgent

AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.

FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.

BANK IN SPAIN MADRID

Dearly Beloved,

I am Mr.Edwuardo the director in charge of auditing and accounting, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.

During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came
across a very huge sum of money in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in plane crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February 7th
2000. We have carefully extract the account information and have kept this secretly since them to enable us execute the transfer of the fund in case none of the decease relation came up for the claim. We have been planning for the completion of this project ever since and the proper time for us to execute the transfer is now.

This is the reason, I have decided to contact you and solicit for your assistance to execute the claim of this fund. You will be requested submit an application of claim to the bank as the next of kin to claim the
money for our own personal use as it happen that his relatives are not available up till now, I will still obtain a genuine legal backing with your name which will place you in the position of the bona fide next of kin to the deceased.

Furthermore, the amount involved is ($25.000, 000.00) Twenty five
Million, United State Dollars, if my proposal interests you then you will have to furnish me with your full name and address including fax and phone numbers, age and profession.

As soon as I received your reply, I will send to you Text of application form which you will fill and submit to the bank as his next of kin.
After due verification and clarification by the board members of the bank approval will be issue and payment made into your would be nominated bank account. Be rest assured that their is no risk involved as I have perfected and made the necessary arrangements to back you up in claiming the fund but you have to maintain the high secrecy which this transaction demands as the bank does not know that I am using you to claim the Money.

After the completion of the transfer, the fund will be share between you and us in this way 60% for me and my friends 30% will be for you, while 10% will be for expenses incurred. I will like to invest my own part of the money in your country base on your advice. I will furnish you with the details and application as soon as you reply this mail. Reply to My mail address : amity77bank@yahoo.com

Thanks as I await your reply.
Best Regards,

Edwuardo

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