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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)
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "nasiru musa" <nasiru_musa16@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:04:14 +0000
Subject: PLEASE YOUR URGENT RESPONDS IS NEEDED

FROM THE DESK OF MR NASIRU MUSA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.This is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly (CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET). However
after series of petition was recieved by this present regime from foreign
contractors and inability of the BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)to fulfill their
obligation for the payment to its foreign creditors,
in conjunction with the council of ministers, they mandated us to carry out
a careful and comprehensive review of all overdue payments
to foreign contractors and to effect payments immediately

uring the above mentioned process, i discovered an abandoned sum of
US$6.5M ( million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his
entire family in a plane crash.Please i want you to visit the website bellow
for more information:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

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 some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our
banking guidelines and laws 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 officially
now decided to make this business 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.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account,and 50% would be for me, while
10% will be for expenses incure during the transaction. There after I will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation 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
wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of the
application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this transaction will
only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, I know what to do and move
the fund into your account without any delay and thatyou should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangement have been made for
the transfer.

You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will send
you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data
information of the deceased customer


Yours faithfully.

MR NASIRU MUSA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)

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