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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 friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "huge sum of money" (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)
  • "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)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: =?utf-8?q?Wilson=20Dikson?= <wil_dikson2020@yahoo.com.co>
Reply-To: ssn02@live.com
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 00:46:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Thanks


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:wil_dikson2020@yahoo.com.co



- Dear friend, How are you doing with your family? Hope fine, please pay attention and understand my reason of contacting you today through this e-mail, my name is Mr Wilson Dikson, one of the banker in boa group bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso www.bkofafrica.net in my department, during the auditing of the year 2008,I discovered an a boned sum of $7.500 million us dollars which belonging to a deceased customer of this bank whom death long with his family during the Iraq warring 2003 here is the war website on cnn and bbc worhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6040054.stm so i desperately need your assistances to secure and move this huge sum of money left behind by my late client to the tune of $7.500 million us dollars out from this bank of Africa to your own account, he executed contract through department of work and housing here in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso and the mentioned money above is his money left in
our bank before his death, meanwhile if you know you are capable to handle this transactions with me come up medially with your information,s.1your full name:2your full home and office address:3your contact cell phone number:4your age:5your occupation :6your country and city: copy of your passport size photograph, to enable me have trust in you and send you the text of application form for you to fill and send to the department as next of kin to the discuses costumer in this bank

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