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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:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "urgent assistance" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "ahmed hassan" <a_ha_6@biz.by>
Reply-To: med_hass_1@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:48:52 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL /PLEASE RESPOND URGENTLY.


*GREETINGS,

I am MR.AHMED HASSAN, from Burkina faso.I know that this mail will come to
you as a surprise as we have never met before, but need not to worry as I am
contacting you independently of my investigation and no one is informed of
this communication.

To make it clear, I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of
$11.3million immediately to your private account OR you can open a new
account where this money will be transferred into even an empty a/c can
serve as far as it can receive money.

The money has been here in our Bank lying dormant for years now without
anybody coming for the claim of it.I want to release the money to you as the
relative to our deceased customer the account owner(Mrs.Joyce Lake) who died
a long with her husband Ronald Lake in a plane crash since 31 January 2000.

You can confirm the genuineness of the decease death by visiting this web
site:
**http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/*<http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/>
*

The Banking laws here does not allow such money to stay more than 8
years,that is why i want to release the money to you so we can use it to
secure the future of our both families because i don't want the money to be
recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

Please respond urgently if you are interested.

Yours Sincerely

MR.AHMED HASSAN.
*

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