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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:
  • ",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 next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: ad_kadiogo2 <ad_kadiogo2@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: adama_kadiogo505@hotmail.fr
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:02:56 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.


From: Mr.ADAMA KADIOGO
Manager,Audit/Account Section
AfricanDevelopment Bank
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso


Dear Comrade,

How are you today? Hope all is well. Please be informed that I have
decided to contact you for a fund transfer transaction worth the sum of
US$10,500,000.00 into your reliable bank account as the sole NEXT-OF-KIN to
the foreign deceased customer of our bank (an International Billionaire
French Businessman) who was killed with his entire family by PLANE-CRASH in
Central England atmost 3 years ago. Since his death occured, no body have
show up as his next of kin for the claim because the account is untraceable.

Upon the investigation I carried out from his records, I found out that
his foreign business consultant whowould have trace the account died earlier
before the deceased. Therefore, this is a confidential and sealed deal.

For thesuccess of this transaction, you should apply and act as the
onlyexisting NEXT-OF-KIN to the deceased which our bank will replace the
deceased account information through proper documentation in position ofyour
own account.

This transaction is risk-free, it will never harm your good reputation
in your society because no one can trace the account, and on the instant of
the transfer of the fund into your account, the chapter of this transaction
will be closed entirely.

Note that in a business of this nature, the bank dont want to know
yourdifference between the deceased country, religion or believe because our
bank inheritance law is against that. So, it is a preference for us achieve
this success without any problem.

Please note down that once the fund get transferred into your account,
you will take 39% of the total sum while the rest will be for me as I will
arrange myself down to your country to take my share.

I need your urgent response and include your private telephone/mobile
numbers for easy communication.Please reply if you can be trusted in this
deal.
Thanks,

Mr.ADAMA KADIOGO

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