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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:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found 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.
  • alain_robort102@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: alain robort <alain_robort65@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <alain_robort102@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 03:08:10 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL FROM MR ALAIN ROBORT URGENT REPLY PLS



FROM: THE DESK OF MR ALAIN ROBORTSenior Staff In File Department,Bank Of African (B.O.A)Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso Compliment Of The Season, I am MR ALAIN ROBORT a senior staff in file department of the Bank Of African(BOA). I am seeking for your capability and reliability to champion this business transaction with me in my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 20.5 million U.S.A dollars (Tewenty. five million U.S.A dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer MR ANDREW KIM (who died along with his family in a plane crash on(Friday December 26,2003) . Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over 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, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates 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 customer was a foreigner, and a Burkina ba cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 35% 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 incurred during the business and 55 % would be for me, Therefore after I and my family will visit you in your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy 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 that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.Your Full Name...........................? Your Sex.................................? Your Age.................................? Your Country..............................? Marital Status......................? Your Photograph.........................? Your Occupation..........................? Your Personal Mobile N...................? Your Personal Fax N......................? as you receive this letter. reply me with this e mail address alain_robort102@yahoo.fr immediately with those information’s i need from you, for me to process the text of application for you to apply to the bank.Yours faithfully,MR ALAIN ROBORT POST SCRITUM: You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank. As you finished reading this letter reply to me immediately so that we discuss very well over this business.
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