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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)
  • "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)
  • "30% for you " (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)
  • "a reliable and reputable person to handle this" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "my direct line" (i.e. "call me on my cellphone at the Internet cafe where we scammers hang out")
  • "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: "rabo sabo" <rabo_sabo08@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:57:06 +0100
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF DR SABO RABO

FROM THE DESK OF DR SABO RABO
BILL AND EXCHAGE MANAGER. FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
BANK OF AFRICA( BOA) BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA
TEL.+22678819685
Dear Friend,

Compliments,

I am writting to seek your coperation over this business proposal.

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

l have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, Let
me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am DR DR SABO RABO a
manager with the Bank Of Africa( BOA), Ouagadougou Burkina faso,Africa.

I came to know you in my Private Search for a Reliable and Reputable Person
to handle this Confidential Transaction, which involves the transfer of Huge
sum of Money to a Foreign Account requiring Maximum Confidence.

In my department, We discovered an abandoned sum of$7million USD(SEVEN
MILLION UNITED STATES 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 bank now expects a next of kin as
beneficiary. Valuable efforts are being made by the Bank to get in touch
with any of the Brumleys remaining family or relatives but all to no
success. the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of Atlanta,United States of
America is a known Philantropist in,West Africa and the whole African
continent

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 make this 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 It is
because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late
Brumleys s next kin (He died with his entire family members)

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after three years, the money will be transfered 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 Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

The sharing of the fund are thus: 30% for you the account owner,60% for i
and my trusted colleagues and the remainning 10% for expenses for both
parties. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage
of the trust we have bestowed in you.

Best regards, Dr DR SABO RABO(Manager).
PrivateTEL.+22678819685




NOTE

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter on my
direct line TEL.+22678819685
.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

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