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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 sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "your urgent reply" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
  • "utmost confidentiality" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
  • "observe utmost confidentiality" (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.

Fraud email example:

From: "karim ahmed" <karimahmed35@superposta.com>
Reply-To: karimahmed1@myway.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:57:25 +0000
Subject: Confidential Business Transaction


Dear sir/madam

I am Mr. Karim Ahmed, Director Account department African development bank
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso . I am contacting you with respect to transfer the
sum ($25,200,000 USD) Twenty-five Million, Two Hundred Thousand United
States Dollar) deposited by a Jordan Merchant named Mr. John Korovo who die
in 25th December 2003 plane crash Benin.


Through my investigation, I find out that he die along with his next of kin
and the roll-over on the funds has also expire because the bank law
stimulates that after five/six years where the next of kin did not appear
for the claim funds, the fund will transfer into bank treasury as unclaimed
funds. In order to avert this negative development, I will like to seek for
your permission as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr.John Korovo
so that the fruits of this old man's labour will not be use for financing
government. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the
ratio of 50% for me and 50% for you and expenses incurred in the course of
the transaction will be made both of us.


There is no risk involve in this project as my position in my bank and with
the aid of my personal information I will be provided to make you the legal
beneficiary and the legality of this project will correspond with local and
international laws of inheritance.Upon your response, I shall then provide
you with further information and modalities that will help you understand
the transaction. You should observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured
that this project would be most profitable for both parties because I shall
require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply
(telephone number: ( 00226 75 33 30 80 <skype:+22675333080?origin=IETB> )
Thanks and regards
Mr Karim Ahmed.

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