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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:
  • "from the desk of" (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)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: karim ahmed <karim-ahd135@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <karimahmed2@myway.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 19:08:00 +0200
Subject: Confidential business proposal !



FROM THE DESK OF: MR.KARIM AHMEDHEAD DEPARTMENTAUDIT AND ACCOUNT (AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK) AOUGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO

Attn: Partner,

I am MR KARIM AHMED, the head of Department with the African development bank Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. It is with belief and trust that I send you this obvious and sensitive business proposal to enable me remit the sum of USD$25.2 Million (Twenty Five Million Two hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) into your account.

This amount belongs to MR. JOHN KOROVO from Jordan and he died as a result of plane crash (Beirut air bound charter jet plane crash happen on the 26th December 2003, Cotonou republic of Benin. Here is the web site (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash)

Now I have agreed, and to arrange with you a as a reliable foreign partner who will assist me by claiming to be the next of kin to the account owner who died in plane crash. I am contacting you because by law, we are precluded from operating any foreign bank account while in service. The only way you can certainly confirm the genuine and existence of the claim is by applying first to our bank for the release of the claim, then you shall be advised accordingly your self, as our bank must not in any circumstance know my involvement in the transaction now or after now.

If it interests you to assist, please feel free to contact me, I promise and agree to offer you 40% from the total fund while 60% will be for me.
Note: any expense incur during the process of transferring this fund, time wasted and telephone bill will be deduct first before the sharing of the fund in your account. A. full name: B. Cell Phone: C. Occupation: D. Country: E. Age: F. photo:

Finally, I would highly appreciate it if you could make up your mind for us to do the business, which will be of great mutual benefit to both of us. Thanking you for you kind co-operation and remain blessed as i look forward to hearing from you soonest.

My sincere regard to youBest Regards,MR.KARIM AHMED
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