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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:
  • "your urgent reply" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "David mensah" <dave_mens6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dave_menssa@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 14:31:40 +0000
Subject: Pls. Reply Urgent

Good day,

My name is Mr. David Mensah, a banker here in Ghana. I write you this
proposal in good faith and hope that you will be of assistance. In 2000 Mr.
Christian Goetz a German citizen and businessman, made a fixed deposit for
60 calendar months, valued at Fourteen Million, Six hundred Thousand US
Dollars (US$14,600,000.00) with my bank. I was his account officer before I
rose to the position of manager. The maturity date for this deposit contract
was 20th of January 2005. But, he died along with his wife in the plane
crash of CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590], which crashed on 25TH JULY 2000
in France. You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site,
which I got during my investigation;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

The account has no next of kin and he did not include any other living
relatives to inherit this fund. Now, Some top management officials of the
bank have been trying to find out from me the information about this account
and the owner, but I have kept it closed because, I know that if they become
aware that Mr. Goetz is late, they will corner the funds for themselves.
Therefore, I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the next of kin
/ business partner to the account since you are a foreigner so that my bank
head quarters will approve the release of the funds to your bank account. It
is only a foreigner that can claim the funds in the account Let me know If
you are willing to receive this funds please let me know your interest as
soon as you receive this mail as I want to invest my own part in your
company. While I wait for your urgent reply, please, treat as top secret I
am the only person having this information.

Regards,

Mr. David Mensah.

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