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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
  • ",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)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Rhoda Richard" <mrsrhoda5@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: mrsrhoda02@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:10:33 +0200
Subject: I WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU URGENTLY THANKS


*From: Madam Rhoda Richard
The secertry of Auditing Dept.
SOCIETE GENERALE DES BANQUES AU BURKINA(SGBB) *

*Dear Partner, Compliment of the season, Good day and how are you doing
with your family? Hope fine. Please let this message do not be a surprise
to you because i got your contact information and lay all the trust in you
before i decided to disclose this confidential and successful transaction to
you. *

*I am the secretary OF AUDITING DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to
contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of TEN
MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($10,500,000.00 ) for
our present future success.
This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers
who died along with his entire family in Algeria Earthquake on 23 may 2003.
Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was
arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2006-2007 in other to
submit to the entire bank management for an official- documentation. *

*Be obviously informed that it was stated in our BANKING POLICY and signed
lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of FOUR (5)
years started counting from the date when the beneficiary died,the money
will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund. Besides, it
is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA FASO
to make the claim of the fund. *

*So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim
and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the
EXTENDED RELATION BEING THE NEXT OF KIN to the deceased, And i have made
inquiries about this deceased customer, and i have enough information for
the success all i need is your cooperation and trust, i will guild you on
how to go about it.
Thanks, I expect your urgent communication, so that we can get started,if
otherwise, please do disregard it. *

*My best regards to you and your family,
Madam Rhoda Richard*

**

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