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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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: Abama George <abamgeg098@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <bawm2010@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:33:18 +0000
Subject: I need your reply urgent.



Dear friend,

My name is Mr.Abama George, ''The director auditing and accounting department" bank of Africa (boa) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. I discovered the sum of seven million, two hundred thousand dollars (usd7.2) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. the fund has been lying in a suspense account without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the account owner Late, Mr.Salla Khat from Lebanese who was involved in the December 26th 2003 Benin plane crash. here is the air crash website on cnn:=http://www.cnn.com/2003/world/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

It is therefore, upon this discovery that I decided to take this ultimatum and make this business proposal to you as the fund will be release to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking rules here stipulate that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

Therefore, I am soliciting for your assistance to come forward as the next of kin. I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the beneficiary respect of the provision of your account and service rendered, 55% will be for me while 5% will be for expenses incurred during the whole process of this transaction. Then if the money transferred to your account from this bank, I will proceed immediately to your country for the sharing of the funds.

Yours faithful,
Mr. Abama George.
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