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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)
  • "million united state 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)
  • "million us 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "director of operations foreign remittance division" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "i got your email address from " (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
  • "my direct line" (a "direct line" in a scam usually means an untraceable mobile phone number used by a scammer in an internet cafe, a redirection service number that forwards to a mobile or a free voicemailbox in a different country.)
  • "foreign remittance division" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • adbremittancedeptbf@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mohamed ibrahim <mohamed_ibrahim04@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:05:59 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Details/ fill and send the application to the bank via email and call me.


Tel:+2267873981
Dear Friend,
Thanks for your response to my proposal. Please be informed that we are both responsible to see that we join our effort together to ensure that the transfer process of this fund is completed without any delay.

I want to assure you that this business is 100% risk free.I give you my words and we are going to conclude this transaction in Good Faith and share the fund peacefully.You don't have to be worried because I will ensure that this fund is transfered into your account without having any problem. What you have to do is to listen to my guide line untill the fund is transferred into your account then I will come over for the disbursment of the fund according to the percentages I indicate in my first letter.For your information I got your email address from an internet when I am looking for a reliable person I will do this business with though I did not know much of you.I strongly beleive that we will work together as partners and get this fund transfered into your account peacefully.

Mere looking at the whole transfer process it might look so difficult to achieve a sucessful result but I tell you that it is not as difficult as you might see it.There will not be any risk or problem after this fund is transfered into your account because i will delete all the files concerning the deceased Mr. ANDREAS SCHRANNER in our bank after the fund is transferred.This business is involve only you and I.

I want to assure you that this business will not cause any kind of problem to you because we are going to do it legally.When this fund is transfered there will be some cover up document's my bank will issue you to show your bank that this fund is legally acquired.I tend to invest some part of this fund in hotel business and also import some agricultural machine's back to Burkina-faso which I will use to set up mechanised farming.

We can join together to set up all this investment if you wish but if it is not ok by you then you have to collect your own share and do any thing you want to do with it.This business will take us about 10-14 bank working days to mature.You have to give me the benefit of the doubt and give me all the surpport I need in this business and I assure you that we will all smile at the end of the day.Please call me on my direct line as soon as you finish contacting the bank.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim.

Below is the application for the transfer.
==========================================================================================================================
ATTN: Dr Ali Aboubaka
The Director of Operations
Foreign Remittance Division
African Development Bank
Ouagadougou Burkina-faso.
Fax:00226-50-42-01-30
EMAIL:adbremittancedeptbf@excite.com

Dear Sir,

APPLICATION FOR THE TRANSFER OF US$15 Million US dollars (FIFTEEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS)FROM DORMANT ACCOUNT NUMBER:$286-41732-55.

I MR............................HUMBLY APPLY TO THIS BANK TODAY............2007 AS NEXT OF KIN TO YOUR DECEASED CUSTOMER MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER OF GERMANY . I HEREBY PUTTING CLAIM OVER HIS BALANCE WITH THIS BANK VALUED AT (US$15 Million US dollars (FIFTEEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) LEFT IN HIS ACCOUNT..

I HEREBY SUBMIT MY APPLICATION FOR THE REQUEST OF MY TRANSFER FORM,FROM YOUR BANK, DESPITE YOUR OVER LOADED PROGRAMS I WISH YOU TREAT MY APPLICATION AS URGENCY ...

THIS IS THE MONEY LEFT BEHIND IN YOUR BANK BY MY DECEASED UNCLE MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER,WHO DIE IN A PLANE CRASH.HE WAS A GERMAN NATIONAL, BUT RESIDED IN OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO AND OWNED:

STE BILLINGS SARL
IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANY,
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.

I AM HIS COUSIN AND NAMED NEXT OF KIN AND THAT THE ABOVE MENTIONED AMOUNT BE TRANSFERED INTO MY NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT AS BELOW:

HOLDER'S ACCOUNT NAME...................................
PROFESSION.......................................................
CITY/COUNTRY..................................................
BANK NAME........................................................
AGE..................................................................
BANK ADDRESS..................................................
BANK TEL/FAX...................................................
SWIFT CODE IF ANY..........................................
ACCOUNT NUMBER.............................................
SAVING/CURRENT/DEPOSIT (STATE ONE)
E-MAIL : ............................................................

PLEASE,ACCEPT THIS LATE APPLICATION AS IT WAS DUE TO THE FAMILY LOGISTIC PROBLEM CONSEQUENT UPON HIS FUNERAL RIGHTS.I HOPE YOU WILL EXPEDITE ACTION.

THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
..........................................



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