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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)
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: billy jones <billyjones60@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <billyjones_002@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:50:05 +0200
Subject: Dear Beloved One



From The Desk of Billy Jones Bill and Exchange ManagerForeign Remmittance Dept. Banque International Du AbidjanAbidjan, Cote D IvoireDear Beloved One With due respect and huminity, I write to you this information.I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of BanqueInternationale du Abidjan .I am writing following the impressive information about you through one of my friends who run a consultancy firm in your country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to utilise this businees opportunity. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S $17m US dollars (seventeen millionUS dollars) .In an account that belongs to one of our foreigncustomers who died along with his entire family in november 1999 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this businness known to you so thatyou will aply as the relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement and releaseof the money to you since nobody is coming forth and I don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. According to our Banking policies and guideline here which stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will automatically betransfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as a relation of the deseased in this business is due to the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an IVOIREAN cannot stand as a relation of a foreignerI have taught it wise to give you 25 % of this money as your own share inrespect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% willbe for re-embursement of any expenses incured during the curse of the transaction and 70% would be for me.There after I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation of the deceased indicating yourprivate telephone and fax number for easier and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted . Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and you should not entertain any atom of fear as all the required documents the bank will need from you,I will send them to you and do not fail to get back to me first before answering any question from the bank and I assure you that I will use my possition in the bank to actualise this dream but please,do not implicate me by letting people know about this business until our aim is acheived because I stand the rik of loosing my job without benefit if our bank gets to hear any news about my involvement in thisinformation.You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately. Your's faithfully, From The Desk of Billy JonesBill and Exchange ManagerForeign Remmittance.
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