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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "you will be entitled to 30%" (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)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• 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.
  • ben10_ajibo@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: ajibo ben <ajibo_ben@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:30:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT


FROM THE DESK OF MR. AJIBO BEN
CENTRAL AUDIT/ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT
ECO BANK ACCRA - GHANA.
(00233-275399244)
MY PRIVATE EMAIL ( ben10_ajibo@yahoo.co.uk )
Dear Friend,
I am Mr. MR. AJIBO BEN, Head of the Central Auditing and Accounts Department of ECO BANK ACCRA - GHANA. (00233-275399244) in West Africa.
With due respect and regards, I write to solicit your assistance and
collaboration in actualising a business/financial transaction. I decided to contact you on this business transaction hoping that it will be very beneficial to both of us at its succesful conclusion. I got your contact through my concerted effort in securring a reliable individual to consumate this transaction with and I earnestly plead for your pardon for any inconvenience this may cause you.
I was divinely and spiritually motivated to pick your e-mail specially to champion this. The amount is large, accepted, but I have the feeling that you can conveniently handle it without any problem.
During our periodic Audit Exercise in this bank, we came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased customer who died in November 1997 in a plane crash. The fund has been dormant in his account under our custody without any claim of the fund either from his family or relation before our discovery to this development. The bank financial policy stipulates that if an account is not operated for more than seven years, the proceed of that account is confiscated and taken over by the bank.
Personally, I kept this information as a secret between me and my partner.
We also smartly audited the account to sooth our purpose for a future plan.
This plan is now suitable for execution as we have done all the spade work against future findings. The said amount is USD$15m (Fifteen million, United States Dollars Meanwhile all the whole arrangement and necessary approvals to put claim over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, has been gotten and put in place.
Our immediate requirement is to have a willing and cooperative foreign partner who will stand as the next of kin and this money will be transferred into his/her account. Directives and needed documents or information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us in actualising this great plan. This is a golden opportunity to benefit yourself and indirectly make our living in this world worth the while. In fact, we could have done this deal alone but because of our position in this country as civil servants. We are not allowed to operate a foreign account while under service. As a management staff in the bank, eye brows may be raised during the course of transfer if our account is used.
I hope you understand. This is the actual reason why it will require a foreign party who will forward claims as the next of kin.
On your request to the bank and after the official protocols, this money will be transferred into any given foreign account by you. This aspect has been duly taken care of by us. I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free and will be transacted in the most legitimate manner.
It may interest you to know that at the conclusion of this business, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as compensation, while 60% will be held on trust for me. The balance of 10% will be set aside to take care of expenses on both sides that may arise during the course of transfer.
We intend to enter into partnership business with you in your country or any country you deem suitable.Please,keep top secret and confidential of this proposal as we are still in service and do not want to risk the loss of our job.We hope to happily retire from service after concluding this deal with you.
I personally will be monitoring the transaction and situation here in the bank until you confirm the eventual transfer of the money in your account. We shall visit your country for celebration and subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously.
Thank you whilst waiting to hear from you.
Yours sincerely
MR. AJIBO BEN
ECO BANK ACCRA - GHANA.
(00233-275399244)


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