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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "my direct telephone number" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Michael Diop <m-diop88@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mich_diop@mixmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:42:49 +0400
Subject: Message from Mr. Michael Diop


Compliments, My name is Mr. Michael Diop from Dakar Senegal. I am the personal account officer to Late Mr. John Schelpert who is a citizen of USA but living here in Dakar with his family before his sudden death. This mail is written to solicit your assistance to be presented as next of kin to my Late Client Mr. John Schelpert of Chestertown, U.S.A. He made a fixed Deposit valued at $13.7M (Thirteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States American Dollars Only)with a finance institution here in Dakar. Unfortunately he lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 1999. To see the details of this plane crash, Please click on the (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm). He left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin but all documents relating to the claim of this fund will be processed in your name as soon as we agreed together. The Governing Body of the Bank here in Dakar has contacted me on this matter and I am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay a claim to the Fund. Under a clear and legitimate agreement with you, I shall seek your consent to be presented as the next of Kin without any risk involved so that my late Client's Fund will not be confiscated by the Government. For the sake of transparency on this matter, you are free to make immediate contact with me through my email address or on the alternative, via my direct telephone number: 00 221 4611209 for further information related to this matter. Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while I expect your prompt response. Yours faithfully, Mr. Michael DiopTel: 002214611209
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