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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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• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
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Fraud email example:

From: "DR.MALY MUDINA" <maly_mudina2000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: maly2007mudina@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:34:53 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL REPLY.

FROM, THE DESK OF DR.MALY MUDINA,
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT(BOA).
BANK OF AFRICA,
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
www.bkofafrica.net

Dear Friend,

How are you doing with your family? Hope fine, Please pay attention and
understand my reason of contacting you today through this email, My name is
Dr Maly Mudina, Bill and Exchange Manager in Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou
Burkina-Faso. In my department, during the Auditing of the year 2006, I
discovered an abounded sum of $30.500.000.00 USD that belongs to one of our
Late custmer, an American prominent man who unfortunately lost his life and
entire family in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which
crashed on January 31st 2000. You may read more about the crash on visiting
this C.N.N News internet website below.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

I desperately need your assistance to secure and move this huge sums of
money left behind by my late client to the tune of $30.500.000.00, (Thirty
million Five hundred thousand Dollars) out from Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso to your own account, he executed contract through Department of
Work and Housing here in Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso and the mentioned money
above is his money left in our bank before his death. Meanwhile, for your
smoothness of this transaction, I will pay you 30% of the total sum for your
co-operation in this matter. If you know that you are interested and capable
to handle this business transaction, come up with the information's showed
below:-

1. Your Full Name:
2. Your Contact Cell Phone Number:
3. Your Age:
4. Your Sex:
5. Your Occupations:
6. Your Country and City:
7. Your Account information where you will
like the fund to be transfered.
As soon as possible all these information's is submitted to me, I will
immediately draft an application form with all your information's and send
back to you, so that you will proceed with the transaction by sending the
form to BOA bank for the transferring of this fund into your account.

Yours Faithfully,
DR. Maly Mudina.

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