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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)
  • "hundred thousand 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)
• 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.
  • haruna105@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "zongo haruna" <haruna105@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:11:14 +0000
Subject: VERY EMERGENCY AND URGENT RESPONSE.....

Dear friend,
I am Mr.HARUNA ZONGO, personal Assistant to the Branch Manager of
Bank Of Africa(BOA) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. I want to inquire from you if
you can handle this transaction for mutual benefits/life opportunity for you
and me. The transaction is about seeking your consent to present you as the
next of kin/ beneficiary of the US$4.3 milion dollars,(four million,three
hundred thousand united states dollars), and who is a customer to the bank
where i work.He died in a Kenya plane crash 2003, with his family during
their vacation journey. The Fund is currently in a suspense account awaiting
claim, the bank made a public notice that they are ready to release this
fund to any of his relatives abroad.You can view this site to know
more. http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html.
THEREFORE, by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL, top
secret should be maintained please!,because i am still in the active service
i do not need any form of implication especially now i'm in the verge of
my retirement to endanger my carear at last!.
Since we got the 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.
In that regard, i decided to seek your consent for this prospective
opportunity. Have it at the back of your mind, that the transaction does not
involve any RISK, and does not need much engagement from you, since i am
familiar with this kind of transaction being an insider. Necessary
modalities will be worked out to enable us carry out the fund claim under a
legitimate arrangement. I have resolved to offer you 30% of the total fund,
10% for sundry expenses that may be incurred during the process of executing
this transaction and 60% percent for me.I will give you more details about
the transaction when I receive your affirmative response,more clarification
information. Contact me through my private e-mail
address:(haruna105@hotmail.com).

I'm waiting to hear from you soon.

Thanks and God bless.

Mr.HARUNA ZONGO.

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