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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Emmanuel Eze" <eeze2002@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:40:05 +0100
Subject: Urgent

Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of Magnum Trust bank(MTB).I am writing ,following the impressive
information about you through an internet buisness proposal .
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15,million US dollars.In
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with
his entire family in December 2003 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want
this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and only foreigners can stand
as next of kin to a foreigner.
We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account and 65% for us while 5% will
be set aside for incidental expences.
This transation shall be concluded within 10 working days upon the receipt
of your response.
Rest assured the transaction is 100% risk free and shall be concluded
without any hitch as i have information relating to any claim we may
make.Let me have your telephone and fax numbers for effective communication.
Expecting to hear from you via my private email eeze2002@walla.com

Yours faithfully
Emmanuel A.Eze

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