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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:
  • "million us 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)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
  • "lome togo" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: mohammadusman4422@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:28:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Good day,


Good day,
Urgent Business Proposal.

I am the Director of Bill and Exchange at the foreign remittance
Department of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK LOME TOGO (ADB). I am writing to seek your co-operation over this business deal. In my Department, I discovered an abandoned sum of (US $43 Million US Dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya,

The account belongs to the Late MR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America but naturalized in Lome Togo and contractor with Anglo Gold.


Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin or business associate to come and claim his money because it cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or business associate to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, all his supposed next of kin or relative died along with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. You can read more about the crash on visiting this site; http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html it is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to your account as the next of kin or business associate

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remains dormant after five years; the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for your assistance and maximum co-operation as a foreign citizen is highly needed to release this fund.

I will like us to share this money mutually on two equal halves between me and you . Please note that I don’t have any asses to withdraw any cent from this money due to the money was insured by the owner MR. GEORGE BRUMLEY. I will indulge you at this point to understand that this is privileged information and must be strictly confidential. Please reply ,

Best Regards
Mr.Mohammad Usman P.


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