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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:
  • "million 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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • a_d_bbf@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "hassan_ 205" <hassan_205327@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:14:36 +0000
Subject: This is the application? fill it and send to our bank ok.

Dear Betune ,

I thank you also for your kind response and i want you to know that this is
not a joking matter because i have worked so hard in my life as i detailed
you in the details i sent to you.Now i want you to know that this deal
does'nt need any delay because the board of directors of this bank has been
putting eyes on this fund to send it to the bank treasury and afterwards
they will share it within them selves which i will benefite nothing from it.

Now i want you to fill this application and forward it to our bank for claim
so that they will know that they beneficiary is alive. fill the application
with your banking details and forward it to our bank without delay and let
me know so that i will monitor their actions over the application and give
you a good information about it.

Waiting to hear from you as soon as you send it to the bank,call me through
this line 00226-78 83 80 60.

yours,

brother,

Mr Hassan .
this is our bank email: a_d_bbf@excite.com
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Attention : Dr Jibril Usman
The Director Of Operations
Foreign Remittance Department.
African Development Bank (ADB).
Ouagadougou, Burkina- Faso


DEAR SIR,

PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT I WISH TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF $30.million
DOLLARS(THIRTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ) ONLY FROM THE DORMANT ACCOUNT
NUMBER
#286-41732-55 TO THE NEW ACCOUNT AS DETAILED BELOW:

BANK-NAME : .......................................................

BANK-ADRESS : ....................................................

ACCOUNT- NO: .....................................................

BANK SWIFT CODE: ...............................................

BANK TEL/FAX: ......................................................

ACCOUNT HOLDER'S NAME: .....................................

MY PHONE-NUMBER: ................................................

MY E.MAIL ADDRESS :...............................................

MY OCCUPATION :.....................................................

MY COUNTRY :..........................................................

THIS IS THE MONEY LEFT BEHIND IN YOUR BANK BY MY DECEASED COUSIN, Mr.
ABDULNASSER KHALID, WHO DIED IN 1999 , HE IS FROM BRUNEI AND RESIDED IN
QUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA-FASO AND OWNED .

STE NASSER SARL IMPORT & EXPORT COMPANY,OUAGADOUGOU,

I AM HIS NEXT OF KIN BY THE FAMILY MEMBERS, I WISH AS THE HEIR APPARENT TO
CLAIM AND INSTRUCT THAT THE ABOVE MENTIONED AMOUNT BE TRANSFERED TO MY
NOMINATED ACCOUNT AS SHOWN ABOVE. EXCUSE ME FOR THE LATENESS OF THE
APPLICATION AND ACCEPT IT AS IT WAS DUE TO LOGISTIC PROBLEMS CONSEQUENT UPON
HIS FUNERAL RIGHTS , I WOULD
APPRECIATE YOUR EXPEDITING THE TRANSFER.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

YOURS SINCERELY

Betune Cadwallader.

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