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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)
  • "million 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)
  • "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)
  • "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
• 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.
  • issa050hassan@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "issa70 hassan" <issa70hassan@peru.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:43:25 +0000
Subject: HELLO!..


Dear friend, I am Mr.ISSA HASSAN, personal Assistant to the Branch Manager
of Bank Of Africa(BOA) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. I want to inquire from you
if you can handle this transaction for mutual benefits/life opportunity for
you and me. The transaction is about seeking your consent to present you as
the next of kin/ beneficiary of the US$4.5 million dollars, (four
million,five hundred thousand united states dollars), and who is a customer
to the bank where i work.He died in a Kenya plane crash 2003, with his
family during their vacation journey. The Fund is currently in a suspense
account awaiting claim, the bank made a public notice that they are ready to
release this fund to any of his relatives abroad. THEREFORE, by virtue of
its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL, top secret should be maintained
please!,because i am still in the active service i do not need any form of
implication especially now i'm in the verge of my retirement to endanger my
carear at last!. Since we got the 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 some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws. In that regard, i
decided to seek your consent for this prospective opportunity. Have it at
the back of your mind, that the transaction does not involve any RISK, and
does not need much engagement from you, since i am familiar with this kind
of transaction being an insider. Necessary modalities will be worked out to
enable us carry out the fund claim under a legitimate arrangement. I have
resolved to offer you 30% of the total fund, 10% for sundry expenses that
may be incurred during the process of executing this transaction and 60%
percent for me.I will give you more details about the transaction when I
receive your affirmative response,more clarification information. Contact me
through my private e- mail
address:(issa050hassan@yahoo.com),<issa050hassan@yahoo.com),>I'm
waiting to hear from you soon. Thanks and God bless. Mr.ISSA HASSAN,

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