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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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • bukan_kargo@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "bukan kargo" <bukan_kargo9@bigmir.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:32:42 +0200
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE!!!


From: Mr. Bukan Kargo,
African Development Bank
Burkina Faso (ADB)
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.

Dear Friend,

It will be a surprise for you to receive this mail. Welcome this letter in
the name of God
I am Mr. Bukan Kargo, the director of the account & auditing dept,
at<http://dept.at/>the African Development Bank (ADB) Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso West Africa.
With due respect, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction
that will be beneficial to both of us. At the bank's last account/auditing
evaluations, I came across an old account which was being maintained by a
foreign client who we learnt died on a sudden motor accident along Togo road
on his way back to Burkina Faso with his entire family his wife and his only
child on 6th Nov. 2003.

Since the deceased was unable to run this account since his death. The
account has remained dormant without the knowledge of his family since it
was put in a safe deposit account in the bank for future investment by the
client. Since his demise, nobody, not even the members of his family have
applied for claims over this fund and it has been in the safe deposit
account until I discovered that. it cannot be claimed since our client is a
foreign national and we are sure that he has no next of kin here to file
claims over the money. As <http://money.as/> the director of the dept, this
discovery was brought to my office so as to decide what is to be done. With
the few personnel in my dept, I decided to seek ways through which to
transfer this money out of the bank and out of the country too.

The total amount in the accounts is ten million five hundred thousand
dollars (USD 10,500,000.00). with our positions as a staff of the bank, I am
handicapped because I cannot operate foreign accounts and cannot lay
bonafide claim over this money. while contemplating on what to do, I came
across your email contact in the internet directory and I decided to ask you
for help to transfer this money out of the country to your account in your
country .the client is a foreign national and you will only be asked to act
as his next of kin or business partner. I will supply you with all necessary
information and bank data to assist you in being able to transfer this money
to any bank of your choice where this money could be transferred to.

I have decided to give away forty %( 40%) to you for your assistance and ten
(10%) for any expenses that might arise during the transaction of this
transfer. I want to assure you that this
transaction is absolutely 100% guarantee since I work in this bank which is
why you should be confident in the success of this transaction because you
will be updated with information as at when desired.

I will please wish you keep this transaction secret as I am hoping to retire
with my share of this money at the end of transaction which will be when
this money is safely in your account. I will then come over to your country
for sharing of the money according to the previous agreed percentage. You
might even have to advise us on possibilities of investment in your country
or elsewhere of our choice. May god help you to help me to a restive
retirement, Amen.

Please for further information and enquiries feel free to contact me through
my email address or call me on this number 00 226 78 14 22 53 for oral
discussion.
Do <http://discussion.do/> not hesitate to furnish me with your private
telephone line for easy and effective communication.


I am waiting for your urgent response!!!
Thanks and remain blessed.

Bellow is my resident contact address and my telephone line
Siege social: 01bp 452001 -Ouagadougou 01
Tel: 00 226 78 14 22 53
Email: bukan_kargo@yahoo.com

Mr. Bukan Kargo,

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