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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million us 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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "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.
  • kofi_06mohammed@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Kofi Mohammed" <kofi__06mohammed@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:59:53 +0000
Subject: APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER




FROM THE DESK OF MR KOFI MOHAMMED.
ECO BANK GHANA LIMITED
ACHIMOTA ACCRA-GHANA


Dear friend,

Compliments, Salam Alaykum! I am the manager of bill and exchange at the
foreign remittance department of ECO BANK ACHIMOTA BRANCH. I am writting to
seek your coperation over this business deal.

In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of$30million
USD(THIRTYmillion US dollars)only , in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash
that took place in Kenya,East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen
of Atlanta,United States of America but naturalised in GHANA,West Africa and
contractor with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES) .

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately , 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 now decided to
makethis
businness proposal to you and release the money to you via your foreign bank
account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and this money Could
go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remainedunclamed after four years, the money will betransfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance and maximum
co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this
business
is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a
GHANAIAN cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, inrespect to the
provision of a foreign account. 10 %will be set aside for expences incured
during the business and 50 % would be for me.There after I will come over to
your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as the relation or next of kin to
the
deceased,indicating your claims and wherein the money will be remitted .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
application which you will fill and submit to the office of the foreign
remittance
director of the ECO BANK GHANA. I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this transaction is stricly confidential and i will use my position in this
Bank to
effect a hitch free transfer of the fund.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.


Please , visit the website below for more informations about the Plane
Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late DR.
GEORGE BRUMLEY.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Your’s faithfully,


MR KOFI MOHAMMED.

Bill AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
ECO BANK ACCRA-GHANA

Identify the address below as the reply-to address.
kofi_06mohammed@yahoo.com

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