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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:
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
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Fraud email example:

From: "John Nuruga" <johnnuruga@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnnurugabk@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:35:21 +0000
Subject: Your Candid Assistance

Dear,

I have the honor and confidence to introduce you to this business in view
of the fact that you are trustworty and reliable.I got your contact from
my secretary who operates my computer and i have confinded
in her the transaction.

I am Elder John Nuruga.The Director Foreign Remittance Department of Africa
Development Bank(ADB)Burkina Faso Annex.There is an accout opened in our
bank in 1990 but since 1996, nobody had operated on it again.After a
private investigation, i discovered that the owner
was the manager of U.Martins Co.Ltd-a foreigner who has since died without
having a beneficiary to this account here in Burkina Faso.My investigation
also proved to me that nobody from his company knows about this account
since
the company has not been operational.The amount contained in this account is
$10.5mUSD(Ten Million,Five hundred Thousand Dollars).

It is my wish and intention to take this fund abroad for investment.My
colleague and i will need you to set up a new account for this transfer and
send to us or you might send an existing account with no funds in it
for us to use.Wewill use normal banking procedures to transfer the funds
legally.I will bring my position and influence to facilitate the transfer by
legal means.What we request is absolute secrecy and confidentiality.And that
you will never never disappoint us when the fund is transfer to your
account.

There is no risk to this business as i will follow the normal banking
procedure.When this funds is transfered to any account you will provide, i
will bring all documents used in this process to destroy them in your
presence when i come over for my share .

Sharing shall be 30% for you,65% for me and the remaining 5% to offset any
expences incurred by each party.

Contact me through my email address or direct phone line 00 226 78 84 40
40 urgently for the way forward.

Best regards

Elder John Nuruga

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