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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found 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.
  • azu_musa004@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "azu musa" <azu_musa5@biz.by>
Reply-To: azu_musa004@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:36:50 +0200
Subject: URGENT REPLY PLS


*From The Desk Of Mr.AZU MUSA
Senior Staff In File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa.
This is my private e mail
(**azu_musa004@yahoo.fr*<http://us.mc581.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=azu_musa004@yahoo.fr>
*)
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE
**http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
* ( "REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS
CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")
Compliment Of The Season,
I am Mr.Ali Asita a senior staff in file department in African developent
bank (ADB).I got your contact from a Yahoo google Search.
When i was searching for a foreign partner i assured of your capability and
reliability to champion this businees opportunity when i prayed to God or
Allah about you.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15
million U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) . In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer MR Andrew Kim who died a long with
his entier family in a plane crash on(friday december26,2003, 13:22 GMT
14:22 UK ).

Since we got 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
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I and one official in my department now decided to make this
businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury
account as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after Seven years, the money will be transfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30% of
this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision
of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the
business and 60 % would be for me, Therefore after I and my family will
visit you in your country for disbursement according to the percentages
indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the
money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax
or email the text of the application I will not fail to bring to your notice
that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any
atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
**Your Full Name...........................?

Your Sex.................................?

Your Age.................................?

Your Country..............................?

Marital Status......................?

Your Photograph.........................?

Your Occupation..........................?

Your Personal Mobile N...................?

Your Personal Fax N......................?
receive this letter.And reply me with this e mail address (**
azu_musa004@yahoo.fr)immediately*<http://us.mc581.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=azu_musa004@yahoo.fr)immediately>
* with those informations i need from you, for me to process the text of
application for you to apply to the bank.*

*Yours faithfully,
Mr.AZU MUSA.

POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to
move very smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank.As you
finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we discuss very
well over this business.Please call me and inform me that you received my
mail, because i don't go to net always.
*

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