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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)
  • "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.

Fraud email example:

From: madam Koku richard <m_koku83@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <m_koku@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:40:21 +0000
Subject: Your urgent response please.



From: Madam Koku RichardThe secertry of Auditing Dept.SOCIETE GENERALE DES BANQUES AU BURKINA(SGBB) Dear Friend, Good day and how are you doing with your family? Hope fine. Please let this message do not be a surprise to you because i got your contact information and lay all the trust in you before i decided to disclose this confidential and successful transaction to you. I am the secretary OF AUDITING DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of TEN MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($10,500,000.00 ) for our present future success.This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family in Algeria Earthquake on 23 may 2003. Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2005-2006 in other to submit to the entire bank management for an official-documentation. You can confirm the genuiness of the earthquake violent by clicking on this web site.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3049001.stm Be obviously informed that it was stated in our BANKING POLICY and signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of FOUR (4) years started counting from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund. Besides, it is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA FASO to make the claim of the fund. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the EXTENDED RELATION BEING THE NEXT OF KIN to the deceased, And i have made inquiries about this deceased customer, will guild you on how to go about it.Thanks, I expect your urgent communication, Please,if interested,get to me immediately so as to detailed you about the formalities involved in achieving success over this abandoned sum in our bank.My best regards to you and your family,Madam Koku Richard.Your urgent response please.
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