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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Micheal Franklin" <michealfranklin26@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: michealfrank006@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:15:22 -0900
Subject: MICHEAL FRANKLIN

FROM:MICHEAL FRANKLIN
TEL: 011-23-480-3300-3799,
FAX: 011-874-7622-77567

Dear Sir,/madam,

My name is MR, MICHEAL FRANKLIN, the Manager, Credit and Foreign bill
of BANKERS TRUST NAIROBI- KENYA PLC. I am writing in respect of a foreign
customer of my bank with account number-17-202-807/ffb/n MR.EDWARD HOOKER ,a
deceased passenger who died on 1st February 1997 in a plane crash on Kenyan
airways on Aircraft HAWKER SIDDELEY HS-748. This crash happened near the
capital city and the registration number of the Aircraft is 6AV-AEO,and
since his untimely death the funds has been dormant in his account,

I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but
all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$10.5M,
[TEN Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars] which has been
with my branch for a very long time. On this note, I decided to seek for
whom his or her name shall be used as the next of kin as no one has come up
to be the next of kin and the banking ethics here does not allow such money
to stay more than eight years,
because money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after
this period.In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal and
decided to contact you.

I will give you 30% of the total sum. Upon the receipt of your response, I
will send you by fax or e-mail the Application Letter and other necessary
documents which you will use to apply in the bank and the next step to take
in respect to this transaction. I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as
all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within five banking days,
after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased. When you receive
this letter, Kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision including
your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication.

Respectfully submitted,

MR, MICHEAL FRANKLIN

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