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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)
  • "hundred thousand united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "John B. Alhassan" <jalha09@msn.com>
Reply-To: <jalhassan1@zapak.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:00:32 +0000
Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?Reliable_B?= =?windows-1256?Q?usiness=FE?=



Dear Friend,

Please, I want to introduce myself and this business opportunity to you. My name is Mr John B. Alhassan, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER, I wish to know if we can work together. I would like you to stand as the next of kin to our foreign deceased customer Mr. Morris Thompson, of Fairbanks, Alaska America who died on January 31st 2000 with Alaska Airlines Flight 261, who made a deposit of Nine Million Three Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$9.300,000) with my bank.

You can as well confirm it by yourself through under stated Website of the incident
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

He died without any registered Next of Kin and as such the funds now have an open beneficiary mandate. If you are interested please do let me know so that I can give you comprehensive details on what we are to do. I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Mr John B. Alhassan.

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