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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)
• 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.
  • f_remit_dept5@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mr_hbilly03@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:38:29 +0000
Subject: DEAR FRIEND,

DEAR FRIEND,

PLEASE,CONTACT ME THROUGH THIS MAIL BOX: f_remit_dept5@yahoo.com

Compliments Of The Season, Please forgive my indignation if this
message
comes to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for
contacting
you without your prior consent and writing through this channel,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 received by this present regime from foreign
contractors
for the inability of the BANK INTERNATIONAL OF BURKINA(B.I.B) to
fulfilled
their obligation for the payment to its foreign creditors. in
conjunction
with the council of ministers, has mandated us to carry out a careful
and
comprehensive review of all overdue payments to foreign contractors and
to effect payments immediately.

I believe that God has a way of helping who is in need.I am (Mr. Hassan
Billy, bill and exchange manager for bank international of burkina
faso(BIB.
During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$9.5
(Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) in an account that
belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
a plane crash that happened in Kenya,East Africa.
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.

Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about
the Plane Crash and the Deceased DR.GEORGE BRUMLEY AND HIS FAMILY.

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1390626,00.html

It is, therefore upon this discovery that, I 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 I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed
bill and 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, it Was on that basis, i decided to
contact
you.
I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner,in
respect
to the provision of a foreign account, and 65% would be for me,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 you should keep this transaction (TOP SECRET)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 that you
should
not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements 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 you should also contact me through this my private e-mail box:
f_remit_dept5@yahoo.com

Yours faithfully,
MR.HASSAN BILLY.
GOD BLESSINGS,PROTECTIONS AND GUIDIANCE TO YOUR ENTIRE
FAMILY. POST SCRITUM: You have to keep everything secret as to enable
the
transfer move very smoothly into the account you will provide to the
bank.As
you finished reading this letter mail me immediately so that we can
discuss
very well over this business.

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