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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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: faith malawe <faithmalawe94@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: mrfaithmalawe@rediffmail.com
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:01:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Get back to me


>From Faith Malawe
International commercial bank Ghana
Ring Road Accra Ghana


Dear Friend,
It is my pleasure to seek for your assistance,this proposal is real and I want you to consider it very important. This is an opportunity I cannot live to miss...it I am Faith Malawe, the director in charge of Auditing section of International commercial bank Ghana, and also a Relationship Account Officer to Al Gupta Kassim, a Lebanese.

He was a Seasoned Contractor with Ghana Cement Company in Ghana Republic,who unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africans Flight Boeing 727 in Benin republic in December25, 2003. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash.

Before his death on the 25th December 2003, Al Gupta Kassim, has a fixed deposit account with the bank and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me that his supposed next of kin died along with him in the crash. Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you.

I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank to the government. Consequently, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 7 weeks now.I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$15.5 million can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money in proportion 70% to me and 30% to you.

I sincerely request your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly email the following Information to me.

a. Details information of the account where this money will be transferred into,
b. Private telephone/Fax number .
Upon your confidential interest, get back to me immediately.
Waiting for your urgent response.
Yours Sincerely.

Faith Malawe +233-24-668-0665

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