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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: "prince paul" <p_paul_8@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: prince_paul1000@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:44:19 +0000
Subject: Urgent Respond Please.

FROM THE DESK OF MR, PRINCE PAUL.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA ANNEX
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.



WEB SITE OF PLANE CRASH;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Attn;

ASSALAMU'ALAKUM

I am bill and exchange manager at the foreign remittance departmentat in
Bank of africa (BOA). I am writing you following the impressive information
about you through one of your friend who runs consitance firm here in my
country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion
this businees opportunity with.

In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of $16.5m US dollars
(sixteen.five Millon US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in a concord plane crash in the year 2000 in paris that almost took
the whole life of the pasengeres on board.

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
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 and other officials in my
department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin or relation 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 treasury as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after Six years, the money will be transfered into the Bank
treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of Kin
in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We
agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect
to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses
incured during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues.

There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
accoding 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 relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your
bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and
effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free
and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer.You should contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear from you
immediately.

WASSALAMU'ALAIKUM.

Your,s Isiam brother,
PRINCE PAUL.
(Bill and exchange manager) .
Bank Of Africa.(BOA)
N.B.My intention of writing you through e-mail is because I belive it is
very confidential.

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