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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:
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned 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.
  • amani_bello5@yahoo.co.jp (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aamani_bello5@yahoo.co.jp

Fraud email example:

From: "amani bello" <amani_bello@klikni.cz>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 10:51:41 +0000
Subject: AN URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL.


FROM BANK MANAGER,
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE,
WEST AFRICA.
Alternative Email:amani_bello5@yahoo.co.jp<Email%3Aamani_bello5@yahoo.co.jp>


ATTN: MD/CEO.

AN URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business
proposal, though I don't know you neither have I seen you before but I got
your contact through the Ivoirian chamber of commerce and industries. I am a
bank manager from ABIDJAN, COTE D' IVOIRE.

The intended business is thus; we had a customer, a Foreigner who was
involved in Kenya plane crash, Boeing 737-800. Killing all 114 people on
board, and you can view the site for more details: (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6627485.stm) He was a Contractor with one
of the government parastatals. He had in his account in my branch the sum of
US$20 Million {Twenty Million U.S. Dollars). Unfortunately, the man died six
years ago, and until today none of his next of kin has come forward to claim
the money. Having noticed this, I in collaboration with two other top
officials of the bank have covered the account all this while.

Now we want you (being a foreigner) to be fronted as one of his next of kin
and forward your account and other relevant documents which we will advise
to you to attest to the Claim. We will use our positions to get all internal
documentations to back up the claims. The whole procedures will last only
ten working days to get the fund retrieved successfully without trace even
in future.

Your response is only what we are waiting for as we have arranged all
necessary things. As soon as this message comes to you kindly get back to me
indicating your interest to my alternative email
amani_bello5@yahoo.co.jpthen I will furnish you with the whole
procedures to ensure that the deal is
successfully Concluded.

For your assistance we have agreed to give you thirty percent (30%) of the
total sum at the end of the transaction. It is risk free and a big fortune
for both of us. With your maximum co-operation, this transaction is not
expected to last for more than 10 working days.


I await your earliest response.

Thanks,

Yours Sincerely,

Amani Bello

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