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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:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • abdulza2006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: abdul zabudaga <abdulza2006@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: abdulza001@indiatimes.com
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:28:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: urgent!! call me


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: abdulza2006@yahoo.com

Hello,


I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of Africa, Ouagadougou . I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may be capable of handling this business transaction which i explain briefly below;


In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars (Ten million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 1998 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 his supposed next of kin(his son and wife) 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 (We want to present you as his business associate )to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasur
y as unclaimed Bill .Due to security reasons, I expect that you call me on my private line +226 76 041017 immediately you receive this letter. for full details of this transaction and we can discuss the percentage sharing mode. Please bear in mind that this transaction is 100% risk free.


Yours faithfully,


DR ABDUL ZABUDAGA

Accounts & Audit Department ,

Bank of Africa

- abdul zabudaga

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