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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)
  • "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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • drballarabe3@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: balla rabe <drballarabe38@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <brballarabe3@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:29:07 +0100
Subject: REQUREST FOR CO-OPERATIVE BUSINESS



From The Desk Of DR. BALA - RABBE.The Executive of the Foreign Exchange Department,Bank Of Africa, B.O.A.Cotonou, Republic of Benin, West Africa.Email: drballarabe3@yahoo.com


Dear Friend,

REQUREST FOR CO-OPERATIVE BUSINESS

I am DR.BALA - RABB, Head of Foreign Exchange Dept: BANK OF AFRICA,BENIN REPUBLIc-COTONOU. Every Six years, Benin Republic-Cotonou Banks transfer to it's treasury,Millions of Dollars/Euro of unclaimed deceased Depositors Funds, incompliance it the Banking Laws and Guidelines.
In the majority of cases,with reference to my Bank Of Africa the money normally runs into several millions of Dollars Until (Mr.Sheu Yuan-dong), Governor of Taiwan's Central Bank, his wife and only daughter with other four other finance officials returning from a conference in Bali Died in a plane crash in Taiwan, I was his foreign currency denoted Bank Account Manager with constant balance in excess of eight digits. Ever since his death and up till this time of writing, no next of kin or relation of his has come forward to claim his money with us,since they lost their only daughter who was supposed to inherit this liquid assets.

However, with my position, I am directly in charge of Bills and Exchange in the Foreign Remittance Department of this bank. I am in a position to cause the payment of this money to whosoever that present himself or herself as the next of kin or relation of late (Mr. Sheu Yuan-dong) on private business deal basis.

Please View this website:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/

The purpose of my writing to you exclusively is that I want to pull out this unclaimed money amounting to US$20,900,000.00 (Twenthy Million, Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with your Co-operation and Assistance by just doing the following :-

1. Act as the Next of Kin, Business Partner, or Relation of late Mr. Sheu Yuan-dong. 2. Provide your Bank Account and Location where you want the money to be Remitted. 3. Provide your Direct Or Private Telephone/Fax numbers for effective communication. 4. Give immediate reply to this proposal, using this private email addresses: drballarabe3@yahoo.com
Upon the receipt of your response and agreeing with my terms, I will send to you by Fax / Email the Legal Certified Bank Application Form that will prove that you are the Next of Kin/Beneficiary/Business Partner of the said funds US$20,900,000.00.

I agreed that (40 %) of this money will be for you as Foreign Partner, in respect to the provision of a Foreign Account, (10 %) will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and (50 %) would be for me. And I will eventually visit your country for disbursement of my percentage and also to know if i can invest part of my share in your country.
As a matter of fact,it is pertinent to inform you that all modalities have been accomplished and all logistics in good shape to effect payment immediately.

Looking forward to a mutual beneficial business relationship.

Treat with extremely confidential.

Best regards!!!
DR. BALA - RABBE.
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